Word: quaded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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AMONG the committee's recommendations is a plan to designate pathways around campus that would be well lit and frequently patrolled by the police at night. All Centrex phones would be converted to speakerphones with emergency buttons. And police officers would begin to patrol the Yard, Quad and River by foot during their 4:00 p.m. to midnight shifts. Unfortunately, the committee's plans do not really address the problem of how to protect students after midnight, but they are a good start...
Everybody knows about Currier. Far, far, far away from the Yard and the Square, Currier is the Mower of the House system. Ugly as sin, it's the Mather of the Quad. Chock full of psycho-singles, it's the mental ward of the College...
...policy will not sufficiently answer the calls by transfer students against being forced to live off campus. Affiliation does not mean a room number. What kind of sense of belonging to a house bythe river is there when your desk and bed are half an hour away--past the Quad...
Since then, more houses have been added, housing has been made co-residential and the Quad houses have become part of Harvard. But perhaps more importantly, the decades since President Lowell first hatched his house plan have seen a gradual evolution in attitudes towards undergraduate life and the very concept of a house system...
...TRUTH, however, is that poster gum simply does not work. Yesterday, I went to the Quad for a two-hour tutorial. When I left, my bedroom walls featured a typical smattering of undergraduate decor--pictures of friends, a Van Gogh print, my favorite Far Side and New Yorker cartoons, Martin Luther King, Jr., and David Ben-Gurion matching visionary stares and so on. When I returned, the collection was unceremoniously gathered on my floor...