Word: leverett
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...terrible overnight student parking" around Winthrop, Leverett, and Dunster Houses will begin next Thursday night...
Student communists had first appeared on the University scene in 1932 when a group organized in Leverett House D-41 to form the John Reed Club. Chiefly intellectual and rather tame, the group was devoted to the study of scientific Marxism and education. The Young Communist League formed soon after in a much more militant fashion. Its monthly magazine, the Harvard Communist, was issued from an anonymous post office box in Boston. Besides featuring the current party line in its columns, the magazine took an active interest in winning converts from among the most susceptible, the underdog. It drew attention...
...might naturally have been expected, the Leverett House Dramatic Society's initial program presented some rough edges. Of the three plays--Marriage Proposal, by Anton Chckhov, Strangest Kind of Romance, by Tennessec Williams, and Weatherwise, by Noel Coward --the last could be called thoroughly enjoyable. The others, irrespective of their merits as plays, suffered from various degrees of clumsiness in acting, direction, and production...
...transformation from a dignified British matron into a dog was the high point of the evening, and the quick exchange of patter among the members of her household never ceased to be amusing. It is fortunate that the Coward play closed the program, because it showed that the Leverett House group is capable of providing good entertainment within modest limits...
Adams, Lowell, and Dunster Houses received the highest number of first choice preferences, followed by Winthrop, Eliot, Leverett, and Kirkland Houses...