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Over lunch in Mather Dining Hall, Alison E. Cohen ’07 repeatedly greets friends with a warm smile, raising her eyebrows in acknowledgement. It is a gesture that perhaps best captures Cohen’s personality. Even a simple salutation goes a long way, she later explains, recounting a formative freshman-year experience when a friend thanked her for asking how he was doing. “Someone would send me an e-mail for doing something as basic as stopping when someone looks sad?” she remembers, reenacting her surprise. Cohen, who describes herself...
...firing of former Deputy Dean of the College Patricia O’Brien—the student-friendly age of yesteryear came to an abrupt close. Indeed, without Summers many important projects, from the Pub and the Lamont café to the renovations of Dunster and Mather dining halls, would never have happened. Investing in the student experience—including academic advising, which despite recent initiatives remains very weak—must continue to be a priority, and it will only be so if Smith embraces it.Dean-designate Smith will also be in charge of the ongoing faculty expansion...
...spectacular,” says Lilly. Lilly, a neurobiology concentrator, will attend Harvard Medical School in the fall, while Scarry, a Social Studies concentrator, will begin a doctoral program in political science at the University of Chicago. This is the first separation for the pair, who both lived in Mather House after their stint in Grays. Lilly describes the change as “really sad” but says “we’ll be visiting each other regularly.” The pair has not set a date for the wedding. According to Scarry, the couple...
Travis R. Kavulla ’06-’07, a former Crimson columnist and associate editorial chair, was a history concentrator in Mather House. He is now associate editor of National Review, and a 2007-08 Gates Cambridge Scholar...
...March of 1957, The Crimson reported that the block bounded by Mill, Mt. Auburn, Plympton and DeWolfe Streets had been chosen as the site for the new House and would cost about $5 million to construct. At the time, the site was occupied by a psychological clinic, Mather Hall—a part of Leverett House—and a row of houses on DeWolfe St. In the three decades since the construction of Lowell House in 1930, the cost of handsome Georgian architecture had ballooned out of the range of possibility, so the residents of Quincy House would have...