Word: leveretts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that he felt "a private developer can come up with a much better offer." Charging Harvard with attempting a "land grab," he said, "I know they are fast trying to put me out of business in my district," the area in the neighborhood of Dunster House and the new Leverett towers...
...Leverett House students will take their meals at all the other House dining halls next fall, John J. Conway, Master, announced yesterday. The Masters had previously decided that Leverett students would eat at Quincy House until Thanksgiving next fall, when renovations on their own dining room are scheduled to be completed...
...Quincy House dining hall will be ready for use next September, but apparently cannot accommodate the Leverett House group. The Leverett dining room is to be extensively modified. Repairs will continue throughout the summer and fall. Soundproofing will be installed, and the steam tables will be moved back into the present kitchen area...
...without murmered whimperings that the plans for Quincy and the Leverett House extension were greeted. Quincy rises like an aircraft carrier in dry dock; and the Leverett towers will reflect a Miami-Beach-hotel flamboyance complemented by a library which combines the best architectural features of a Peter Pan Drive-In and a Shinto temple...
...Leverett, of course, has long faced an unfortunate lack of popularity partially due to architectural features: it lacks a splendid tower and its dining room is a huge reverberating cavern. By now, Leverett's problem has received due recognition from the Administration, which has provided grants to remodel the dining hall, besides extending the House with the new Leverett "Towers." It seems only just for the Administration to pay similar attention to the perhaps less pressing, but nevertheless important lacunae in the physical plants of other Houses...