Word: dorms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then you came to Harvard, and you weren't a big deal anymore. You weren't even a "Let's Make A Deal." You were a freshman, you had to walk three miles for a meal on weekends, and everybody in the dorm was a high school yearbook editor. I'll take the door in front of which Carol Merrill is now standing...
...strong feelings I have on the question of freshmen in the quad. I have thought about this a good deal in the course of the past two years; in addition to serving as Head Tutor in the Economics Department, I lived for two years in Comstock Hall, a quad dorm with roughly half freshmen and half upperclassmen. I also taught Ec 10 four times (twice as a North House section...
...empirical evidence on this might be gleaned from a short stay in a quad dorm with freshmen and a similar stay in one without freshmen. The difference is unbelievable...
When benefactor Canaday told Harvard he would like to give them a dorm, he was reportedly told that the University would like to build it at the Quad, because that's where attractive new housing was most needed. Canaday, however, wanted his hall in the Yard, where he had gone to college, and not way the hell up Garden Street. Canaday's love for the Yard, while heart-warming, must now be viewed as more than a little unfortunate, because events have conspired to make his dorm the agent that will cause the end of four-year housing...
...make matters worse for anyone who dared to stray from the overheated confines of a Harvard dorm, freezing cold followed the day of rain, and turned most streets and sidewalks into rough approximations of Watson Rink...