Word: eached
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Canaday is ugly. Its functional, housing-project architecture won't be featured on any Harvard postcards, but most Canaday rooms have three bedrooms for four people in addition to a common room. That means each student can enjoy a single for one semester.
Thayer Hall, south of Canaday, is a nice, fairly nondescript dorm. About 20 people share each of Thayer's hallway bathrooms. Thayer adds a new twist to Harvard's entryway system: its hallways are actually social.
The living is easy in Holworthy, perched at the top of the North Yard. Its four-person suites feature common rooms and two bedrooms. Each Holworthy floor has two connected quads, which lends the dorm a social air.
Stoughton and Hollis, the almost identical North Yard dorms, offer one huge room for two people. Hollis and Stoughton roommates either become bosom buddies fast or spend the year aching to slit each other's throats. In any case, they get to know each other well.
But against this background of experiments, keep a few things constant. I was lucky in that my first year at Harvard was a year of things falling into place, however unlikely they may have seemed. I was blessed with two of the best roommates one could ever hope to have...