Word: elmwood
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...University where history and tradition have perhaps received more than their just due, Elmwood is one of the few truly historic buildings. Built in 1767, it served as headquarters for one of the leading Royalists during the American Revolution, and later, as a hospital for General Washington's troops...
Oliver, who used Elmwood to quarter a number of General Burgoyne's British troops, was made to leave the house after the Revolution. It is recorded in his class report that the new government was upset following Olivers eviction when it found an emaciated, undernourished slave child there and had to care...
...Elmwood was sold by the Commonwealth to Andrew Cabot in 1780, who in turn sold it to Eldridge Gerry, Class of 1792, a politician who spawned the term "gerrymandering." After that, the house passed into the hands of James Russell Lowell, Class of 1838, who turned it into an important visiting place for prominent foreigners...
Though the house at 17 Quincy St. has not nearly so illustrious a past as Elmwood. it has received some measure of fame. Built in 1910 by President Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877. it served as a training center during World War II for the Navy V-12 program. During that time, neophyte sailors kept a 24-hour watch and "swabbed its decks" every few days...
...sole worry about Elmwood concerns its small capacity for dinner guests, and he plans to enlarge the dinning area. But. he said recently, he hopes the job can be done at a reasonable price; "After all, I can't preach parsimony to the University and be profligate in my own affaires...