Word: leveretts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They vary in scope. The Freshman Festival represents the first attempt to provide the Yardlings their own arena of artistic expression. The Leverett House Arts Festival has opened its competition to the College, and in the area of experimental films, to the entire University...
...festivals, sponsored by Adams, Dunster, Leverett, and Quincy Houses and the Yard, conform to no set pattern...
They vary in purpose. Quincy will concentrate on the performing arts, Leverett and Dunster on the visual arts, and Adams will present a panorama of talks, concerts, films, and exhibitions attempting to present a smattering of Russian culture...
Perhaps the best-known of these is the Leverett House Arts Festival, being held this year May 8-15. Adapting itself to serve the College rather than just the House, it provides a forum for a College-wide undergraduate competition in four areas--painting, photopraphy, three-dimensional works, and fiction...
...Leverett has numerous advantages for making the adaptation. Because the House has two libraries, the Old Library can be used in conjunction with the Junior Common Room as an art gallery. Students are drawn to Leverett's competition from all over the College by the cash awards, in all areas, of $50 for first prize, $25 for second, and $15 for third. Finally, the House can graphically symbolize--and advertise--the Arts Festival with its "Space Frame," a geometric structure in the Towers' Courtyard made of sticks and strings and reminiscent of a World's Fair pavillion...