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...that generation of reformers, the West was the shiny future, progress the ultimate good. English and French were spoken round the dinner table, and the women gathered to knit the latest Paris fashions. These children of a revolution dreamed of a westernized Turkey, and naively believed a little social engineering would get them there. Modernity was their religion...
...Indeed, both Harvard men and women must confront the same problem: a dating culture conspicuous by its absence. The concept of taking someone out to dinner and a movie has been replaced by the nebulous notion of the hook-up. Harvard students are getting more action on Friday nights with total strangers than many loving Victorian couples did in the course of 50-year marriages. This is not optimal. But what other options does our generation have...
...House has had a swimming pool since 1907, but for a few hours last night, Winthrop House got one too. Backed-up drains and rainfall inundated the House’s dining hall, gym, basement, and several entryways with sewage, forcing some students to flee to other Houses for dinner. Winthrop House Master Stephen P. Rosen ’74 said last night that 15 people, including a crew from the Harvard Emergency Operations Center, would have the flood cleaned up by 3 a.m. this morning, in time to open for breakfast. According to Rosen, crumbling infrastructure in Winthrop...
...After hours, the couple loves to entertain, holding dinner parties for colleagues in their Cambridge home. “There’s nothing nicer than friends around a table, sitting in the glow of candles, their cheeks turning ruddy after several glasses of wine, their temperaments turning mellow after a good duck…” muses Homi...
...legacy is already emerging from this service. A few years ago, Pertile and Bensted commissioned an Eliot House song to be written and an American Idol-esque competition emerged. Ever since residents voted and chose the winning lyrics in the dining hall, singing the song at dinner has become a classic Eliot tradition...