Word: dorms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Coeds in four-story Aquinas Hall, the largest women's dormitory at Rhode Island's Providence College, had stopped their late-night cramming for final exams to engage in a bit of holiday fun. Competing for a $100 prize for the most elaborately decorated dorm, students on the top floor of the 38-year-old building pasted gaily colored tissue paper and Christmas posters on the walls and hung crepe-paper streamers from the ceilings. One coed scrawled MERRY CHRISTMAS with spray snow on the windows; another adjusted a gooseneck desk lamp to shine on a cardboard nativity...
...locksmith has inspected the locks in the Yard, and maintenance men have removed the hooks which can be used to keep dorm doors open in an effort to save energy and increase security, Moses said...
Some colleges would laugh this issue right out of the dorm. Many, if not most, house people together regardless of class. Aha, the clever critic notes, most colleges don't employ the House system. Still, Yale, that bastion of Eastern Enlightenment, has what amounts to a four-year, pre-assigned House system, and consequently there is less freshman-upperclass tension (not that they would notice it anyway). Until this year, the Quad, which some of you may have heard of if you've ever hiked a few miles north from the Square, had four-class housing and it was working...
...similar project took place when the University built Mather House eight years ago. Harvard owned the buildings on the construction site, and found new homes for the tenants who saw their homes razed to make way for the new dorm. However, residents of Peabody Ave., took matters into their own hands five years ago, and successfully down-zoned the property adjacent to nearby Putnam Ave., thus limiting the space Harvard would have to build another dormitory. But Hill says the University is still considering construction of another dormitory in the vicinity of Putnam Ave. With the possibility of a full...
Frances Fletcher, manager of the hotel, seems to be enjoying the arrangements. "I feel like a dorm mother," Fletcher said last week...