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...some students move off-campus, Quad residents will be moving back on. Almost all of the $21.6 construction project will be finished in September, including two new dining halls for Cabot and North Houses which will share a kitchen, says Assistant Dean for Physical Resources Philip A. Parsons. "Things look all right at this point, although nobody has ever done this much construction in a summer at Harvard," he says, adding that the work will probably cost slightly more than projected...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: At the Quad and the River, It's Too Close for Comfort | 6/11/1987 | See Source »

...years, nonetheless denies on-campus housing to transfers at least for their first semester at Harvard. After that, transfer students may enter a lottery to gain affiliation--but not housing--in one of the residential houses. As an affiliate, one may be invited to live in the house, or one may not be--it is completely up to the individual house master. The overcrowding of recent years has meant that most transfer students have been lucky to be on campus for as little as one-third of their time here. Most of us must live off-campus in apartments with...

Author: By Matthew A. Saal, | Title: Feeling Out of Place | 6/11/1987 | See Source »

Likewise, terms differ greatly among colleges. Government at Harvard is Political Science practically everywhere else. Dorms are apartments, and apartments are dorms. A House at Harvard is a college at Yale, and an off-campus accomodation at Wesleyan...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: College Colloquialism | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

...addition off-campus housing in Ithaca and the surrounding areas is plentiful and relatively inexpensive. "By the time they're juniors, most people want to live off-campus," says Gerry Fenech, a Cornell senior...

Author: By John P. Stanley, | Title: Be It Ever So Humble, There's No Place... | 4/11/1987 | See Source »

Fenech has lived off-campus for two years, and says that the main disadvantage to eschewing university housing is the distance between his room and classes. "A lot of people, like me, live up to, up 15 or 20 minutes from the center of campus. It's long walk," he says...

Author: By John P. Stanley, | Title: Be It Ever So Humble, There's No Place... | 4/11/1987 | See Source »

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