Word: nook
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Like all worthwhile things in life—college, employment, gun ownership—your Hist and Lit career begins with an application. It sounds intimidating at first, but once you are accepted into the fold and its cozy nook in the Barker Center, you are joining an old family (seriously old—it’s celebrating its centennial this year).Like the Grape Nuts phenomenon, History and Literature is neither History nor Literature—at least not exclusively. Rather, it uses history to contextualize and draw conclusions about literature, and vice versa. Daily Hist...
...library staff isn’t worrying too much about Lamont’s recent raucousness. On one night last week, a guard politely said, “Happy Birthday,” to a crew who had gathered with cake, music, and balloons in a first-floor nook to celebrate with a girl who would not leave Lamont under any circumstances. As long as students do not start burning books for 4 a.m. entertainment, then we feel that this conduct should remain unpunished. Students here are studious enough, and the new Lamont has hopefully allowed for some...
...jewelry, costumes, and a variety of other accessories. The Harvard Storytime Players buy many of their costumes and materials from the Garment District for their productions. “The selection of stuff, the variety, and the amount,” said Machado, gesturing to the clothes stuffing every nook and cranny of the store, ranging in style from the 50s through the 80s. “We get a lot of people coming in for parties, mostly on weekends, like every weekend, for 80s parties, 60s parties—a lot of students.” Others flock...
...have to entice our friends somehow,” Matsui joked. “So we used a sexy room.” The said enticing must work. From the red lights in the hallway, to the H-Bomb cover on the front door (featuring the roommates), the corner nook in Bingham Towers is absolutely “sexy.” And unique. “As far as I know there hasn’t been another co-ed room at Harvard,” Ching says. The best friends convinced the housing office to let them share...
...runs until Easter next year, will explore the reading experience with seven rooms of styles and genres, such as topsy-turvy world, wilderness world and a world of quests and challenges. There's also a story lab, in which the public can access digitized collection material, a sunny reading nook, a café and a bookstore. Flossie Hunt, 11, of Rothbury, Northumberland, predicts that "people will want to spend the whole day here." Memo to Hogwarts admin: get those school trips organized pronto...