Word: leveretts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to Richard T. Gill '48, Master of Leverett House, the resolution was proposed during a discussion of parietal restrictions for Spring Weekend. The Committee immediately decided not to restrict the hours students may have women in their rooms during Spring Weekend...
Three Harvard students, Todd Boll '68, David Chesire, and William C. Mullen '67, will rend from their own poetry, and David Ansen '67 will read an original short story tonight at 7 p.m. in the Leverett House Old Library. This is part of "Harvard College Originals," a preliminary event in the Leverett House Festival of the Arts...
...fall of 1960, three roommates and themselves for some reason occupying a four-man suite in the brand-new Leverett Towers. Their three names, which each contained the same number of letters, were aligned with aesthetic precision in space on the door which had been designed for four names. They were physicists, and the solution to their spacial problem was apparent at once. From this inauspicious beginning emerged a unique Harvard career. Stephen Potter never became a Harvard legend, for his creators never sought or received the fame of the Princeton undergraduates who got a non-existent student admitted...
...from the University's pockets, but nobody seems to know what to do about it." This news was attributed to "anonymous students," but in fact its source was a letter Stephen Potter had written to the CRIMSON the week before. In the letter he explained that students living in Leverett Towers never bothered to turn off the three 150-watt spotlights with which the rooms were equipped because they didn't have to pay the electric bill. On the basis of a three-week personal survey of Leverett lighting habits, Potter wrote, he had calculated that wasted electricity cost...
Weeks later, Buildings and Grounds replaced all the 150-watt bulbs with 75-watt lights, which is the way they have stayed ever since. (President Pusey, speaking at Leverett soon after the change, reportedly told his audience, "You can ask me about anything--except the lighting situation.") "We never intended anything like it," Potter's creators say now. They think that the loss of bright lighting on the curtained windows "spoiled the look of the Towers...