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Straus, hidden in the Yard's leafy southwestcorner, is the second-youngest dorm in the Yard.Straus' smallish but nice quad suites containprivate bathrooms. With Store 24 right across thestreet, Straus residents are set for the manyall-nighters that first-years invariably end uppulling, particularly when expos papers...
Weld has funky, castle-like trim on the outsideand large, social hallways on the inside. Thedorm, which underwent a massive renovation in1992, was the first Yard dorm to be fullyhandicapped-accessible. Those first-yearsstationed in Weld will be only the fourth group tolive there since the renovation. The observatoryis a nice touch. And you can't beat the laundryroom right in the basement...
Matthews' Gothic exterior resembles the set ofa horror movie and its dark interior hallways canbe a little spooky. But the wood-paneled rooms arenicely sized, and Matthews residents often turnthe hallways and stairwells into an arena forcreative dorm games. Matthews was renovated in1993. The renovations did not include elevators,and living on the top floor can be extraordinarilydifficult, although occupants are often in greatshape...
Hurlbut residents--who call their dorm "theButt" and themselves Hurl-beu-tians--live in"pods;" huge circular common rooms with singlesbranching off of them, or "suites," four rooms andbathroom adjoining a small hallway. Most ofHurlbut's oddly shaped rooms are comfortable andin good repair...
Students at other colleges, most of whom livein minuscule two-person boxes with cinder blockwalls and linoleum floors tend to get jealous whenthey see pictures of elegant Harvard quarters. Andwith good reason. Harvard's dorms have somedrawbacks, of course; students need to develop thestamina to climb stairs and a high tolerance forold architecture. But a housing system thatinvolves working fireplaces, wooden floors,spacious rooms and beautiful landscaping isn'tsuch a bad start to a Harvard career.Crimson File PhotoCanaday, the newest first-year dorm,consists of seven rectangular buildings in thenortheast corner of the Yard...