Word: quads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to Cliffies, the College proposed the break-fast subsidy plan after students complained about higher room and board rates. The new rules required off-campus students, even those living several blocks from the Quad, to contract for three meals a day, instead of the one they had been taking...
...everything had gone according to the little-publicized plan, by the end of the day pinwheeling troops of girls would have planted 2000 bulbs of various denominations in shrub-beds around the Quad. It was supposed to be the first major step in a long-range scheme to re-decorate the Radcliffe greensward...
...Hilles Library slights some people, it is still an excellent "study center." Its very weakness for the wonk, its relaxed smoking-room atmosphere, is its greatest strength as the center of an intellectual community at Radcliffe quad. No modern building at Harvard succeeds as well in including the old pleasures of quiet, leisurely contemplation or discussion...
...Hilles Library in the Radcliffe Quad is attractive, comfortable, and convenient for Cliffies to use for taking out reserve books at night. But during the day, when the girls are in the Square and might like to spend a spare hour between classes looking at a reserve book, there is no place for them to go. While Radcliffe once housed its books midway between the Quad and the Square (and conveniently across the street from the Graduate Center where many Cliffies eat lunch), now there is nothing but an intellectual wasteland stretching the long mile up Garden Street...
...completion of the library means that, for the first time, Radcliffe girls will have full work and study facilities within the dormitory Quadrangle. The library serves as "a functioning center related to the academic life of the students," and makes the Quad, at last, more than a place to eat and sleep, she said...