Word: dorme
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Weld was finished in January, 1993. Days after its completion, the residents of its traditional rival Matthews Hall moved across the Yard into the newly-renovated dorm. And days later, the gutting and refitting of Matthews began. The process was finished in time for the Class of 1997 to move in last fall...
Matthews was joined in the summer of 1993 by Greenough, Hollis Hurlbut, Pennypacker, Stoughton and Thayer Halls, all of which underwent varying degrees of renovations. Then, in January 1994, the Great Dorm Switch was repeated, with residents of Pennypacker and Holworthy moving into a completely redone Thayer...
...project seemed able to maintain order among the hammering and tearing. Once the dust had cleared, Weld and Thayer had both lost their traditional physical entryway divisions--now, building residents didn't have to go outside to get to friends living on the other side of the dorm...
Like many of its fellow dorms, Canaday is getting its bathrooms redone. But the Yard's newest dorm is also being gifted with a unique touch, a ventilation system for its bathrooms designed to eliminate the problem of moisture condensation leaking into the rest of the building...
That's fortunate, because Harvard doesn't really have a backup plan if some major disaster occurs--29 Garden St. is not being kept as a safety net. If for some reason members of the Class of 1998 or 1999 are greeted with tents rather than dorm rooms, Harvard would probably draw national ridicule. Harvard has to get this summer's renovations done, as well as those slated for next summer--Massachusetts, Straus and Wigglesworth Halls...