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Word: dorms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Holmberg says. "The kids in Canaday are complaining about how it's too hot in there." Like most administrative problems, this one involves money. Canaday Hall is the only air-conditioned dorm in the Yard, but the air-conditioning is turned off because the students living there wouldn't pay extra for it. But since the dorm is air-conditioned it has few windows and, in short, the students have changed their minds. The problem is that it costs money, money the students didn't pay, to turn the air-conditioning...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Thomas Crooks | 7/22/1975 | See Source »

...Radcliffe student has filed a claim with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charging that Harvard discriminated against her on the basis of sex when she was refused employment on the dorm crew in June...

Author: By Brian D. Young, | Title: Woman Student, Denied B&G Job, Charges Harvard Discriminated | 7/22/1975 | See Source »

Canaday Hall. The only air-conditioned Harvard dorm, but you're either in it or you're not. Maybe you could make friends there...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: MISCELLANY | 7/11/1975 | See Source »

...sallow faces above the collars were debating the relative merits of the various Supreme Court justices they had clerked for. At the next awkward power is the conversion, one of them turned is me. "I'll, you're Andy Klein, aren't you? I was in your freshman dorm. I'm Alex Forbush. What have you been doing with your life?" My mind reeled. Can I tell him I've been washing dishes, driving delivery vans, waiting on tables. How can I counter William O. Dougles with Tommy's Lunch...

Author: By Andrew G. Klein, | Title: Zooting Among the New Professionals: Class of '70 Alumni Hold 5th Reunion | 6/9/1975 | See Source »

...university we caught slight of a group going into a dorm and we ran up and tried to follow them in nonchalantly. One girl asked us where we were going, though, so we told an abridged story and she said to sneak down into the television room and sleep on the couches. The damn t.v. wouldn't shut off so we were stuck with the late news, the Star Spangled Banner and then the snow for the rest of the night. I went down the street to a combination Deli/Sub-shop/Bar-and-Grille, but there wasn't anybody upstairs so I went downstairs...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Riding on the Blacktop Rivers | 5/28/1975 | See Source »

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