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...part of my pride in that accomplishment was simply that I had survived. At times it seemed Harvard almost prided itself on its indifference to the social and academic challenges of undergraduates. Upon my return, I was astonished to find the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub being built in the basement of Memorial Hall, and I was even more amused to hear that the administration had hired a social director to get students out of the library on occasion...
...Student involvement may have been key to the success of the pub, which would look much different if administrators had adopted the designs of the firm they initially hired to make a plan for a campus bar. That company first proposed a three-dimensional grid for the walls and then, in a second attempt, a design featuring smooth benches molded out of the wooden walls. But throughout the process, students who were consulted were said to call for a more traditional pub, and the College eventually hired a new firm to design the space...
...Discretionary Fund for Undergraduate Life, the fund has been responsible for bankrolling several important student life projects such as the renovations of Hilles Library into student group space, the renovation of freshman common rooms in Yard basements, the Lamont Café, the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub, and events sponsored by the College Events Board...
...University Hall, O’Brien helped spearhead the creation of two library cafés and a campus pub. Summers, who is said to have hand-picked O’Brien for the new post of deputy dean, said she brought “much-needed” energy to the College administration...
That’s because Harvard is the people who constitute it. Years of clamoring for a better advising system, a real curricular review, a Pub, a student center, a 24-hour library, campus-wide concerts, and a host of other amenities—that was my job, after all, on the Crimson’s editorial board—masked an unassailable, deep satisfaction with the people that surrounded me. That will always be Harvard’s winning chip, and this week, it upped the ante...