Word: gold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shouts of "Fill her up!" echo daily over the foundation of one of Harvard's most stately dormitories. For the twentieth century and a Gulf gasoline station long ago replaced the first fashionable queen of the Gold Coast, Beck Hall...
...those few who can remember back to the period between 1870 and the depression, the Gold Coast was a string of expensive dormitories for sociable sons of millionaires. With swimming pools, squash courts, high Victorian ceilings, and elaborate marble mantels, these mansions stood, as a contemporary has written, "in relatively obscure streets traversing the gentle slope between the center of the University world at Harvard Square and the world's end at the Charles River...
...twentieth century, Beck Hall's chandeliers soon began to lose their brilliance. A portion of the ground floor was even given over to "a school for teaching young women the art of riding on a bicycle." Eventually, construction of Claverly in 1893 and other later dormitories forced this original Gold Coast mansion to surrender its social prominence to Mt. Auburn Street. It was torn down...
James E. Donaghy '56, Adams House Athletic Chairman, explained that both Dunster and the Gold Coasters will now split the first and second place points and divide possession of the football trophy...
Although Adams tied for the tackle football title, the Gold Coasters could do no better than a sixth in touch and an eighth in soccer. Eliot and Lowell tied for sixth in the trophy competition, while the Commuters came in last...