Word: leverett
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...story of Harvard is here from its earliest conception by the Great and General Court of Massachusetts and its successful birth by virtue of John Harvard's gifts. Through Master Eaton and President Henry Dunster to "the great Leverett" and through Kirkland to Charles William Eliot and Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Professor Morison has traced its now illustrious now "low and languishing" course through three centuries...
When the Houses went into operation the center of Harvard life for the upper-classmen shifted unmistakably from the Yard to the region beside the Charles. Five of the Houses, Eliot, Kirkland, Lowell, Winthrop and Leverett, are grouped fairly close together in one section, while Dunster is located farther down the river and Adams on the old Gold Coast on Mt. Auburn Street. Between the Yard and the Houses, in the vicinity of Mt. Auburn Street, are located also the New Athletic Building, most of the clubs and the officers of the CRIMSON, Lampoon and Advocate...
...second successive Sunday, the playboys of Plympton street indulged their exuberance and held up traffic for an hour--between 5 and 6 o'clock--while they poured a water barrage down on any unlucky passer-by. Lowell and Leverett Houses concentrated on the lower end of Plympton street, while the two divisions of Adams House took care of the upper end. Col. Apted collected more than 40 bursar's cards; the Cambridge police threatened prosecution for four students caught with water pistols...
Morris Earle, of New York City, resident of Leverett House and an editor of the CRIMSON...
Lowell now has 1042 to Winthrop's 987. By winning their games with both Eliot and Leverett, the Purtain nine could tie the Rabbits for second in the baseball standing and thus pick up 7 1/2 points at the most...