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Christine A. Telyan ’04 is a social studies concentrator in Eliot House...
...years after Ann Radcliffe donated 100 pounds sterling to the University that Harvard finally found a place to stick her name. Harvard’s nascent women’s college was in desperate need of a name change in 1893—before then-University President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, dubbed it Radcliffe, it was known as “X College.” A century later, Harvard’s wayward daughter has been fully merged into the University, but its physical legacy—the dormitories up Garden Street—remains...
...wanted to live together somewhere, they could all put the Quad and end up there.” Sure enough, by 1996, the percentage of black students in the Quad Houses was five times as large as in the MAC Quad “White Triangle” of Eliot, Winthrop and Kirkland—24.6 percent versus 4.8 percent. The racial disparity between the Quad and river was practically unthinkable, but real, and it left administrators little choice but to randomize housing to correct it. As then-Administrative Dean of FAS Nancy Maull and computer science professor Harry...
...Charles Eliot accepted responsibility for “X College” only after painstaking negotiations, presumably concerned about the perils of overseeing a divided campus. Today, nearly half of Harvard students are women. But by planning to unite the College’s physical space for the first time in a century, Larry Summers seems to be turning back the clock...
...picked the room for the parties,” said Jay Pendse ’04, a member of the four-person group that actually lives in the Bell Tower itself. Through the fire door are the other members of their blocking group, as well as a former Eliot House resident who transferred into Pfoho last year...