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Nestled high in Kirkland House, above the noise and traffic of JFK Street, is a bit of an agrarian oasis created by Joseph M. Whitchurch ’04 and his “apprentice farming protégé,” roommate James R. Griswald ’04. Since moving into school this semester, the guys have been growing a variety of vegetables and herbs such as peppermint, chamomile, lavender and both sweet and hot peppers. The main objective, in addition to providing friends with herbal remedies for a cold or the minty part of a mint...
Hammond served as master of Kirkland House from 1945-55 and was Lowell House’s first senior tutor, his daughter said...
Thomas Buckley ’49, a former Kirkland House resident who Hammond tutored, said he remembers the weekly teas Hammond held with his wife, Florence Pierson Hammond...
...with the publication of Crimson Dorm Life projected for December 2003, the stories of this mischievous Matthews resident along with many others will be brought to light thanks to Weston M. Hill ’94, a former teaching fellow and psychology concentrator in Kirkland House. After seeing an old photo of a dorm room in a book on the history of Leavitt and Peirce, a store on Mass. Ave. and former student meeting place, Hill set out to document a sort of cultural history of Harvard students—their dorm rooms and possessions, their amusements and pranks...
...Hill has noticed, less alcohol. “The booze doesn’t flow as easily today,” he notes, recalling an annual Kirkland Kentucky Derby Day in the 1980s flooded in beer. Hill says that the crackdown on alcohol may have affected the kinds of leisure activities in which students engage. “Mischief still goes on but in a different way,” Hill says, though he is is currently soliciting input from current students to discover what this...