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Despite the exaggerated horror stories surrounding being Quadded or becoming the next resident of the Concrete Elite (a.k.a. Mather House), there are assets to all of Harvard's 12 Houses...
Built in 1970 just as the concrete of Mather House was being poured at the opposite end of campus, Currier was the last House that Radcliffe built before coeducation. Located next to the under-appreciated Hilles Library, Currier's four towers scoff at the river House entryway system, offering sociable hallways and a large number of singles. The House's renowned 10-Man suite is infamous for its lively social scene...
...Mather House...
...original question, whether the natural world has any value in and of itself, divorced from any utility to the human species. Can birds, trees, the oceans and the atmosphere ever be more than economically or scientifically significant to us? Yuri Agrawal '00 is a biology concentrator in Mather House...
Probably the sweetest revenge in all of Harvard's history, though, was a direct hit from Cotton Mather, Class of 1678, son of Increase Mather, Harvard's sixth president. Although Cotton Mather had hoped to follow in his father's footsteps, he was rudely passed over for the job three times. Seriously peeved, he joined a group of conservative clergymen (all Harvard alums) who founded the Collegiate School of Connecticut in 1701. "And," Bethell notes, "it was at Cotton's suggestion that the school was renamed Yale College in 1718. So a Harvard man was instrumental in bringing Yale...