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...their time, strong loyalties among their alumni for the 65 years of their existence. And, as is often the case in higher education, where there’s alumni loyalty, there’s alumni giving.It’s because of a trust that the organizers of Eliot House’s annual spring Fête can afford to splurge on champagne fountains and ice sculptures. We Winthropians, meanwhile, content ourselves with 40s in Gore Courtyard during our own spring formal. (Not to say that there’s anything wrong with our distinctly more down-to-earth brand...
Piotr C. Brzezinski ’07 is a Social Studies concentrator in Winthrop House. Nikhil G. Mathews ’08 is a government concentrator in Mather House. Andrew M. Trombly ’08 is a philosophy concentrator in Eliot House. All of the writers are Crimson editorial editors...
...Handel: Water Music John Eliot Gardiner Conducting the English Baroque Soloists (Philips). Gardiner's original-instruments essay of Handel's ebullient suite excels not only for the unerring intonation of the playing but for its irresistible rhythmic energy. King George I never heard it like this...
...think anyone had taken a look at it since 1961 when Quincy was first built,” wrote Kirshner, who was a resident of Quincy House as an undergraduate. The decaying vent has been identified as a fire hazard, worrying several administrators who recalled the Eliot Grille fire of November 2001. That fire forced all 430 Eliot House students to evacuate for an entire night and was deemed a “near-catastrophe” by then-Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68. The ventilation equipment snakes its way through all eight stories...
Clannish athletes are not usually credited with strengthening the university community, but sometimes pigs fly. So effective have their coups d’ état of the Eliot and Lowell House dining halls been that both Houses have been forced to impose restrictions on non-residents during peak hours; a resident may invite one guest during traffic hours. Currently, Quincy is the only desirable River House that is restriction-less (at least for upperclassmen), and that domino too shall soon fall...