Word: heating
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...Gold Coast was an exclusive club, and the Harvard administration had other priorities. In fact, rather than try and combat the social chasm between the rich and the poor, Harvard magnified the disparity by relegating the poorer students to the Yard. Living in the Yard meant many things: no heat, no running water and a strong feeling of social inferiority. This rooming system created a caste system within the student population...
...Fastidious youths who wanted plumbing had to room in private houses," writes historian Samuel Eliot Morison. There was no heat in any of the Yard buildings, and students bought their own coal and stored it in the basement of Grays Hall. An editorial in an 1895 Crimson vehemently protested the lack of bathing facilities and lamented that the only water to be found was in the basement of each building or from the pump outside of Hollis. Today, the pump rests as a bizarre monument in the Yard, but to the boys banished for lack of money, the pump...
...yard backstroke Wriede battled itout with rival Chuck Barnes of Princeton, beatinghim in the preliminaries on Saturday morning buteventually taking second in the finals. Despitefinishing behind Barnes, Wriede's time of 1:46.60in the preliminary heat was a personal best andwith the current rankings, all of his efforts lookstrong enough to guarantee him a spot in the NCAAChampionships March 12th...
...what if that's all you can do for 52 weeks a year?" Howells says. If your vacation town is boarded up in the winter, you may find that the quiet life doesn't stimulate you enough, or that your summer cottage isn't so quaint when the heat doesn't work...
...TELEVISION Coyotes at Bruins, NESN, 7 p.m. Celtics at Cavaliers, WABU, 7:30 p.m. B. East Chm. (WCB), ESPN2, 7:30 p.m. Knicks at Heat, TNT, 8 p.m. Mid-Cont. Chm. (BKC), ESPN2...