Word: dorms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hold on a second. You thought that your Harvard acceptance letter was also a ticket to unrestrained freedom? No parents or boarding school advisers for four years? Almost, but not quite. Just about every freshman dorm entryway has a proctor who acts, among other things, as a live-in mommy or daddy...
...vacant tract of land near the Kennedy School just outside the Square's center has been converted into University Green and Place, a condominium/office project. The condos are selling for between $150,000 and $750,000 each, but just in case you were thinking of skipping out of the dorm, most of them have been occupied since June...
...lived in Greenough Hall, one of the four freshman dorms not in the Yard. Being off the Yard was a bit inconvenient. We were away from the action, but we were much closer to the dining room, if you call that an advantage. The problem with Greenough wasn't that it was so far away, or even that it wasn't that it was so far away, or even that it wasn't as beautiful as the Yard dorms; it was that the dorm was star--studded with academic hotshots. It had a reputation of being the nerd dorm that...
...winner to Manhattan for a night and take the winner to the restaurant of his choice. One of the women from upstairs came by as the conversation ended and learned of our bet. Several weeks later, I was talking to a different woman in the dorm who had heard that my friend and I were having a race to lose our virginity. I guess things had been embellished a little in the Greenough Grapevine...
...agreed with her again. Then she said she would demonstrate her strength by tearing apart my beer can, and she did. I couldn't take it after that, so I went home and studied some chemistry. I dubbed her Bertha after that and, unfortunately, a lot of the dorm picked up on it. She never learned of her nickname, and I'm glad she's not reading this...