Word: leveretts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Henry P. Briggs Jr.: Student Council Committee on Foreign Study; PBH; Leverett House Committee 1952-1954; Blood Drive, Combined Charities, Boys' Club Coaching Work; Varsity Soccer; House Tennis, Squash, Basketball; Field Artillery ROTC...
...Leverett, Dunster, Eliot, and Kirkland were represented in the evening matches, along with Adams and Lowell. Eighteen men represented the six Houses...
...five Houses in the main College system, however, are bound together by an underground food tunnel 1750 feet long that extends from Kirkland to Leverett. Lost students at Leverett or any other House along the route claim this is the probable cause of cold food, Heamen maintains that it requires only six minutes at the most for food to be wheeled, via electrically heated wagons, from one end of the tunnel to the other, and, from there, up dumbwaiters to the House kitchens. Eggs and other cooked order delicacies are prepared in the Houses themselves, rather than in Kirkland...
...longer the central problem in running the University, the authorities still keep more than a casual eye trained on the dining halls. It is both an interesting fact and an unfailing truth that the presidents of Harvard who have been mindful of the food, like Henry Dunster and John Leverett, have gone down in history as great and even had Houses named after them--for the same reason that no one would consider naming a House after presidents Eaton or Hoar who treated the culinary arts with indifference...
Under the administration of Leverett, the fork was introduced. Until this time, the food was placed on the table and ravenous students would immediately lunge for the food and spear whatever they could. The College dandies in those days came into the dining hall with strange implements resembling stilettes stuck in their belts. These, of course, gave them a great advantage in snatching chunks of meat, until Leverett's introduction of the fork equalized the situation...