Word: quadded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the Quad Houses have recently undergone $33 million in renovations, for example, only 20 percent of those three houses were made handicapped-accessible, Wallace says. Likewise, original verbal agreements to make one Yard dorm totally accessible were scaled back to plans of two suites in one entry, he says...
...said that house populations should be a "microcosm" of the University-wide student body in order to give students the "experience of learning from one another." University officials said that major policy moves such as the 1968 decision to make the houses co-ed and recent efforts to put Quad facilities on par with those of River houses were geared toward this...
Also significant was the dramatic rise of the popularity of the Quad among students, who have traditionally ignored the old Radcliffe dormitories. The University has just spent two years and $33 million renovating the Quad. According to North House Master J. Woodland Hastings, his house was the first or second choice of as many students as any other house...
Overall, a Crimson poll showed more students picked Leverett first than any other house. Eliot, Quincy and Winthrop Houses followed Leverett. In a shake-up at the bottom of the list, Lowell House sank to 11th displacing all but one Quad House...
...least the pastel picnic tables that, as the third project, still dot the Quad do serve some useful purpose, but they too are little more than burlesque--thanks to Office for the Arts Director Myra Mayman's infamous observation about picnic tables: "Either you've sat on them or you've gotten laid on them." It wasn't the most practical idea to allow artists to indulge their whimsy at the expense of the hundreds of students who wanted to play frisbee on the field or walk across it unimpeded, but the concept and the execution alike were good...