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...school year began: just about every computer on the wireless and residential networks on campus is now behind a firewall.This particular firewall is, more or less, innocuous. It blocks incoming traffic, so it only will stop you from things like trying to run a web server out of your dorm room. The reason for its implementation is in fact to protect us, from malicious viruses that take over our computers and use them to attack other machines on the Harvard network or the internet at large.Were we not students at Harvard, however, but rather students...
...bawdy parties raging inside 28 Perkins Hall some eight-and-a-half decades ago would have made the present-day Mather Lather seem positively Puritan. Harvard boys in ladies’ clothes danced and drank in the dorm room of Eugene W. Roberts, Class of 1922, allegedly “the ringleader of a vibrant homosexual subculture” on campus.This salacious scene is central to the story-line of William Wright’s latest book, “Harvard’s Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals.” But just as Wright?...
Harvard freshmen without friends at Yale won’t have to sleep on a park bench during this year’s Harvard-Yale weekend. While the upperclassmen Houses have always been paired with residential colleges at Yale, this year, for the first time, freshmen dorms will also be paired with upperclass Houses and their respective Yale sister colleges, according to Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman ’67. Because Yale’s residential college system includes freshmen, Dingman said adding Harvard first years to the mix makes sense. Prior to the change, freshmen...
...It’s the same as if you had a Harvard dorm [where] you couldn’t personalize anything,” said Reeves, a former resident of Mather House...
...Dorm renovations? No; with the epidemic of floods, the bizarre heating fluctuations, roach infestations, and general run-down condition of the suites I’ve had occasion to visit, that can’t be the case. Perhaps hiring and training better teaching fellows? Clearly not—no explanation required. No, while any of these other worthwhile endeavors would seem a logical place to start utilizing such an abundant sum of money, I’ve figured out what’s really going on—they’re spending the money on ice cream...