Word: quaded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Approximately 900 Harvard students are expected to converge on Boston's Roxy club at the Tremont House Hotel on Sunday, December 10 for the second annual Quad formal...
...happened to me too many times to count. The temperature is 30 degrees or it's raining--too cold or wet to ride my bike--and it's 11 p.m. I'm at Johnston Gate or at the Science Center waiting for the shuttle back to the Quad. I wait until the time the shuttle is supposed to come. No shuttle. I wait ten minutes more. No shuttle...
Take a look at the gaps. While there are shuttles at 3, 3:12 and 3:20 p.m. from the Science Center to the Quad, there is not another until 4 p.m. Similarly, there are shuttles from Johnston Gate to the Quad at 8:23, 8:33 and 8:45 p.m. and then not another until 9:26 p.m. And on weekends, the shuttles don't even begin running until 11:45 a.m.--long after many people must trek to the Square for appointments or religious services. These shuttle schedules are not made with students in mind...
This year, many administrators are trekking up to the Quad once a week for Administrative Board meetings, held for the first time in Hilles instead of in the soon-to-be-renovated Union. I'm glad they have to walk up to the Quad, because it gives them a taste of what we endure day after day. I'll be even gladder when it gets too cold or snowy to walk comfortably and they must try out the shuttles themselves. I'd be gladder still if they had to wait outside the dark Science Center for shuttles...
Most Harvard students have travelled along the Red Line to Central Square for an evening out, some less-expensive shopping or even a bit of fast food. The vast majority, especially residents of the Quad, make at least a few trips each year to Porter Square for similar reasons...