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...White House got some new coats of white paint and was made habitable in a rushed three years. An impatient James Monroe opened it with a rousing reception on New Year's Day 1818. The place was packed. Writes historian William Seale: "The heavy odors of wet plaster and paint must have rivaled society's usual smells of rouge and plaster and pearl powder, camphor and macassar hair oil." The powerful newspaper the National Intelligencer was uplifted: "It was gratifying to be able once more to salute the President of the United States with the compliments of the season...
...Those upon whom the plaster chunks and boards
Thus learned the residents of Stoughton Hall last week when Harvard's idyllic architectural charm turned into a harbinger of disaster. In North 29 plaster fell, dust clouds filled the room and three first years acquired a set of minor scrapes and bruises. The rest of the hall was spared the mess but not the ensuing mayhem. All of Stoughton's residents were evacuated by HUPD...
First-years were quick to laud Harvard's handling of the plaster disaster. Perhaps they were still awed by the grandeur of first impressions. Perhaps the closeness of the Loker barracks provided better opportunities to "get to know your neighbors" than the ice cream bash. Or perhaps it was the embarrassment that they should have known what was coming all along: If the holes in the pavement in front of your building date back to before the advent of electricity, then the support beams in your ceiling are probably that old as well...
Most of the ceiling in Stoughton North 29 fell to the floor just before noon yesterday, sending dust and large chunks of plaster raining down on the heads of the students in the room and on their possessions...