Word: leveretts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Houses are the next major sphere of musical activity. Leverett comes closest to the inner sphere of the big auspicious organizations. Its chief claim to fame is its Opera Society which as Yearbook 331 puts it, "has become the most active producer of large-scale musical events among the Houses." Its major effort this year was a highly successful production of The Marriage of Figaro, mounted with the aid of professional singers and instrumentalists and a $4500 budget...
Although Yearbook 331 characterized Leverett House as home base of Harvard's musical Establishment, there really is no musical Establishment. Instead, there are five to a dozen groups competing for the privilege. The Glee Club is as much a final club as a music-making organization. The HRO cannot attract many of the best instrumentalists who maintain that their time is better spent practicing privately than rehearsing with the orchestra. By now the "Harvard-Radcliffe" Orchestra has adopted a policy of beefing itself up with players from other colleges and from the conservatories...
...Leverett House...
Partial credit goes to Leverett House's hard-rock corps of Harold Pulling, Chris Mortenson, John Beaulieu, and Ric Multhaup, who earned a "good" rating with 53 of 75 right. But the overall showing boded ill for the future and neglect of the past...
...bound for an unwanted House can match the wrath of the student separated from his chosen roommate. The plaster wall of one fourth-floor corridor sports a newly-kicked hole to prove it. The kicker, who said the wall gave very easily, will be floating in Leverett and his roommate, in Dunster...