Word: leverett
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Richard T. Gill '48, Master of Leverett House, explained that he voted to remove sign-in books because they were "just not doing any good" and were "a source of discomfort to some...
...Basketball W L Winthrop 7 1 Leverett 4 2 Adams 4 2 Dudley 5 3 Kirkland 3 3 Dunster 3 4 Eliot 2 4 Quincy 2 5 Lowell 1 7 "B" Basketball W L Leverett 6 1 Kirkland 5 1 Dunster 6 2 Eliot 5 2 Adams 4 3 Winthrop 3 5 Quincy 2 5 Lowell 1 6 Dudley 1 7 Hockey Dunster 5 0 0 Winthrop 4 0 1 Eliot 4 1 0 Leverett 3 1 1 Lowell 2 1 0 Kirkland 1 4 0 Quincy 1 4 0 Dudley 1 5 0 Adams 1 6 0 "A" Squash...
...Lowell 3 0 Kirkland 2 1 Adams 2 1 Quincy 2 2 Dunster 1 1 Eliot 1 2 Winthrop 0 1 Dudley 0 3 Leverett...
LEWIS MUMFORD considers the view from his study at the top of Leverett towers one of the great advantages of the apartment he has occupied there since 1965. The scene unfolds up Dewolfe St.: first the insistent brick spire of a Catholic church, then the stubby red buildings of the Yard, and finally, William James, towering abrupt and white in the background. The church spire struggles for attention, but can't really match William James, which rises sleek, new and confident above the Cambridge sky-line. Beneath it, the quiet buildings of the Yard huddle together as if frightened...
Mumford, a visiting scholar in Leverett for the last four years, says he likes the scene because he likes Cambridge generally. The tableau also seems to resonate with something deep in Mumford him-self. The tension between old and new, past and future weaves through almost all of Mumford's 50 years of prodigious writing on man and his social environment. Mumford remarks philosophically that he's a "rare bird." He may be rarer than he thinks: a kind of latter-day Thoreau, trying to make sense of the twentieth century and plan for the twenty-first...