Word: quaded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bateson, the daughter of Margaret Mead and now a professor of anthropology at Amherst College, and other alumnae point to their living arrangements as a symbol of the disadvantages Radcliffe students confronted. "We had to live in the [Radcliffe] Quad, and there was no transportation. But we took it for granted and developed strong leg muscles. Now you can't get anyone to live there unless you provide transportation...
...Radcliffe students had to be in their dorms at 11 p.m. on weekdays and 1 a.m. on weekends, and the Quad at night frequently looked like a scene out of a bad romance novel. "All the couples would be kissing good night on the steps at the same time," says Levi, who married a member of the Harvard Class of 1960 a few days after graduation...
...petitioning the powers that be for the right to build our own set of shanties in the Yard. These will replicas of the Quad to protest our being Quaded, to request that Harvard divest from itself for letting the Quad get into bad condition. In our "Statement of Policy" we wish to stress that our premise for our demands is that Harvard has let much of the Quad become rundown, has threatened to cut-off badly needed renovations for lack of funds, and has made that Quad situation much worse than it already...
...although we may seem to be upstart, disgruntled freshman unhappy with out exile to suburbia, we ask that our grievances be given equal respect. Discourse is needed on this otherwise apathetic campus; all we ask that you consider some issues close to home, especially since we at the Quad aren't close to home...
...joke." But heh, when we look out the window there is this town and we being stupid freshman say to ourselves why is there this town so close to home where all these radical conservativces and radical liberals get to stay indefinitely when we have to go to the Quad? I mean we heard from some official sources who know someone at who knows someone who knows Dean Epps' secretary and he says that all the radical groups are Quadlings in search of closer housing. This makes sense, our source says: the "Ivory Tower" alone sleeps eight. The thing...