Word: dorme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...true that the entire lives of some students have become centered around these games. In one Yard dorm, video game players admit that the activity of their entryway revolves around their four brightly colored Nintendo 64 controllers. All of these students voice loud support for "Bond," their favorite game. (Note: The word "Bond" must be yelled.) In accordance with his obsession, Jamil K. Shamasdin hopes to redecorate his common room with "Bond chairs...to serve as thrones for our pasttime." "Bond chairs" are something like airport chairs with an attached table--but the unique furniture piece is impossible to describe...
Further, the notion that sitting in a Harvard dorm room studying 15 hours a day (as Cotton noted Thomas Jefferson allegedly did) prepares most students for anything other than a life of elitism and inaction is profoundly faulted. Where is the logic in supposing that people who contentedly spend four years doing nothing but classwork will suddenly rise from their undergraduate stupor and be ready (or qualified) to change the world? And where is the logic in supposing that it is possible to extricate oneself from society for long enough to graduate summa...
...read up on feng shui, the ancient Chinese philosophy for creating harmonious environments and then tried to incorporate mirrors, crystals and running water into my living space. In my own way, I tried to bring out the feng shui ideals of Balance, Harmony, and Prosperity in my meager dorm room. I'm not entirely sure it worked...
...would live. I desperately longed for Grays, which I had heard called the "Harvard Hilton." Instead, Canaday welcomed me. Undeterred, my suite-mates and I dreamed of constructing another level in our top floor Canaday room last fall. They, like me, had hopes of making a mind-blowing Harvard dorm room. However, nothing special ever came from our lofty designs...
April Cornell's merchandise has more 'character' than the bland, mass-produced items at rival Crate and Barrel across the street, and since they don't advertise, the store has an exclusive feel. So whether creating a fantasy dorm room, checking out the Provence collection, or just chilling with the 30-somethings wandering the store, April Cornell provides a chance for students with sufficient cash to be (or at least meet) the Martha Stewart of Cambridge...