Word: eliot
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...House. “I was curious about other Open Houses because ours was so good,” she said. “And the food is way better than the dining hall food.” Yuan’s journey will next bring her to Dunster, Eliot, and Adams. Attending all of the Open Houses by the end of the semester may be a hefty goal, but if accomplished, may give her a bit more heft as well...
...possible solution: The University should de-randomize housing and give rising sophomores greater say in choosing their social communities. At one point in the not-so-distant past “What House are you in?” wasn’t a vapid question. Adams was artsy. Eliot was snooty. Lowell was brainy. Mather was jock-y. Sure, there are potential problems with racial self-segregation and intra-house homogeneity, but flattening these wrinkles with the iron of randomization was a quick and ultimately careless fix, one that has resulted largely in the social sterilization of Harvard. Unfortunately...
...knew who either had voted here or had been following the races and I talked to some candidates who were out on Mass. Ave. last weekend,” he said. The Quincy House voting center was designated to serve local residents—including students—from Eliot House to Lowell House. Most of the people using the polling station, like Tawfik Sameh, who lives on JFK St., were not Harvard students. Sameh brought a white-and-green sign for City Council candidate Craig Kelley when he went to vote at Quincy House, but was not allowed...
Looking for a drinking game for Harvard-Yale that doesn’t involve conspicuous ping-pong balls? Look no further as the denizens of Eliot House—home of more Rhodes scholars than Yale—have adopted an original alternative: Stump. FM observed Eliot House’s weekly post-Stein Club game to see what the hype was all about. According to worldstump.com, “The origins of Stump are shrouded in mystery, but evidence suggests it was invented in the northeast, perhaps at or near Paul Smith’s College in upstate...
...papers do not detail what the three drop-outs, Martha Eliot, Abby Eliot, and Mary Burrage, specifically objected to. “On June 21, 1915 a committee was elected to plan the reorganization of the club,” writes Radcliffe Archivist Jane Knowles in an e-mail. “Unfortunately the records peter out at that point except for the reunion suppers that continue until June 18, 1923. We can’t prove when the club folded or why because we have no documents; we can only surmise that it dwindled into a reunion of alumnae...