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In the days before 1930, when Abbott Lawrence Lowell instituted the Harvard House system, the wealthy graduates of the Eastern prep schools kept to themselves in the "Gold Coast" dorms. The "Gold Coast" ran along Mt. Auburn Street and up Bow and Linden, housing most of the student body in...
Lowell's chief objective in constructing the Houses was to end such elitism and draw together an increasingly fragmented community. A key element in his plan was the House Master, responsible for forging each Houses into a community-selecting every student resident for among interviewed freshmen, choosing tutors, and serving...
"I saw Lowell House go from being one of the three most popular Houses to one of the last three. If you were low your feelings were hurt," Perkins recalls. He spent much of his tenure as Master stressing the House's role as an academic support system, knowing well...
With the prospects for quick payoffs fading, venture-capital firms that have been the Daddy Warbucks of the industry are tightening their purse strings. They are now slow to provide more money to companies for research. Says Brooke Byers, a partner in the San Francisco firm of Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield...
Ward 7, Precinct 1--Residents of graduate dorms--Ames Hall, Child Hall, Dane Hall, Holmes Hall, Perkins Hall, Richard Hall, Shaw Hall, Story Hall and Wyeth Hall--vote at the Agassiz Elementary School at the corner of Sacramento and Oxford Streets.