Word: quaded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...district includes the Quad, but not Harvard Yard and the River Houses...
Rather than blocking a council proposal on the house lottery to reveal lottery numbers to apprehensive freshmen, Jewett approved the previously rejected plan with startling and flattering speed. Jewett showed his concern for Quadlings by promising renovations to the dilapidated Quad Houses despite financial difficulties. Rather than postponing or cancelling changes to the buildings, Jewett listened to student pleadings. He modified the plans and finally gave the go-ahead for Quad remodeling...
...oldest institution of higher learning. Only in 1971 did Harvard and Radcliffe finalize the agreement that forever altered the nature of the 350-year-old men's school and the 92-year-old women's college. For it was in that year that women, previously housed mostly at the Quad, could live in the Harvard houses, which are at the center of the undergraduate sense of community...
...after the smoke cleared, not enough freshmen had listed Quincy House, traditionally one the most popular houses and last year's first filled, as one of their three choices, a phenomenon usually experienced only by houses in the distant Radcliffe Quad. The housing office had to assign some students to live in Quincy--just one of a host of unanticipated results of this year's new housing lottery system...
...allowing freshmen to know what houses still have room for them when they make their choices. But as Elaine C. Crespo '89 said upon hearing that her rooming group would be one of the last hundred out of the 529 to choose a house: "It won't make the Quad any closer...