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...perpetual exchange of the bizarre social currency of a New York address: “I live on 78th and Amsterdam” for “I’m just across town on 5th.” My offering, “I’m from Hamden, Conn., just outside New Haven,” isn’t worth much on the New York social exchange. This emphasis continues beyond those first weeks of freshman year. Regardless of their professional aspirations, grads flock to the city’s bright lights and high energy. Undergrads flee...
...town of Hamden, Conn. has little, if any, of the hustle and bustle of 5th Avenue. A far cry from the East Side, Hamden is a quiet suburb, easing the transition from urban New Haven to rural Chesire. Most of Hamden was originally a farm whose vestiges still linger on as stone walls in backyards and undeveloped fields. At its outskirts, Hamden is a liquor store and a gas station with barely paved roads and population densities approaching zero. Near New Haven, Hamden is schools, large colonials, and parks interspersed with restaurants and bars. But most of Hamden lies between...
...Erika T. Hamden ’06 didn’t have to become an Anthropology or EPS concentrator to get Harvard to take her on a mini-break. Last spring, Hamden took the Freshman Seminar “‘Sin and the City’: Tales of Historic Kyoto.” While the course description stated that there was a possibility of a class trip, Hamden remembers being unclear whether that meant “a trip to Japan or a trip to the MFA.” Her professor, Mikael Adolphson, funded the trip through...
Long a destination for tea-lovers in the Square, Tealuxe is “exactly how you want a tea shop to be,” says Erika T. Hamden ’06, who appreciates the quintessentially Cantabridgian atmosphere. Although Tealuxe focuses on traditional English tea, it does serve a limited number of premade “bubble teas” in addition to offering the option of adding tapioca pearls to high-quality iced teas. The iced tea—flavors vary by day—is consistently superb, but the bubbles may be hit-or-miss, occasionally...
...Harvard women’s lacrosse team erupted for a 7-0 lead in the first 7:58 of its contest against Quinnipiac on Saturday before cruising to a 15-9 win in Hamden, Conn...