Word: greenoughs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First-year students moved into Greenough, Hollis, Hurlbut, Matthews, Pennypacker and Stoughton halls over the weekend, the scaffolding gone, the debris forgotten, the hammering ended after a frenzied summer of construction work threatened but never killed by delays...
Work will continue on Matthews through the summer, Levitan says. It, Greenough and Hurlbut will all be complete by the fall. Hollis and Stoughton will undergo exterior renovation, as will Pennypacker. Thayer will be complete at the end of the fall semester...
...shock," says Royce Lin '96, a Greenough resident. "It didn't really scare me, but it did make me angry...
...imagine there's a prefrosh anywhere who dreams about living in Greenough, Hurlbut or Pennypacker. Along with places like New Quincy and the Jordon Coops, these dorms have been relegated to a sort of Ivy League purgatory--they're bona fide, but some of their prestige got lost along the way. You'll never see a Union dorm on an admissions tour or in a promotional booklet. They represent the underside of a preppie heaven, where bedroom vistas incorporate the band headquarters, a cafeteria delivery zone and old rusty dumpsters...
Hurlbut residents--who call their dorm"the Butt"--live in "pods," huge circular commonrooms with singles branching off of them. Most ofHurlbut's oddly-shaped rooms are comfortable andin good repair. Unlike the other first-yearresidences, Greenough feels much like a"typical" college dorm. Long narrow hallways, tinyboxy rooms, and communal bathrooms are the normhere...