Word: entryway
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...official cellars remaining on campus is tucked away in the “O” entryway of Eliot House. It belongs to the renowned Society of Fellows, a select group of legendary Harvard luminaries such as Lamont University Professor Amartya Sen and Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value Elaine Scarry. The cellar has about 700 to 800 bottles, and has in recent years turned more towards Australian and Chilean wines, rather than the traditional French, according to Diana Morse, the society’s administrator...
...piggybacking,” and let someone follow us into our house without swiping his or her own ID card. And even doors with locks permit entry when they are propped open by a coat hanger, shoe, or toaster oven. Yes, asking that guy or gal outside the entryway for ID is awkward. He or she may, in all likelihood, look offended and snap, “I live in your hall!” But consider: Is a little social discomfort worth $10,000 of personal belongings? (This much was stolen from Lowell in 2005.) And, conversely, when your...
...having a sense of community in their living situation. ‘DORMCEST WORKS’J.T. Scarry ’07 and Evelyn Lilly ’07 have known each other since the first day of freshman move-in, when they both took residence in the same entryway in Grays Hall. Scarry writes in an e-mail that their first interaction was likely “one of those awkward first-year ‘Hi, my name is X and I come from Y and my intended concentration is Z’ conversations.”They...
...courteous but stern letter to undergraduates last week, reminding them that they could be expelled for tampering with fire safety equipment. The day after Gross penned the letter, a prankster sprayed a fire extinguisher throughout Canaday D, leading to the evacuation of the building and forcing students in D entryway to sleep elsewhere for the night. Although campus administrators state that the number of false alarms has not been abnormally high this year, a fair amount of controversy has surrounded recent incidents, stemming from miscommunication among students, administrators, and firefighters. Pranksters are at fault, but many students feel that...
...Eliot D-entryway tutor, Geoffrey L. Werner-Allen ’02, says that the House has identified a few people as the perpetrators of the alarms, but that the incidents might have been mistakes...