Word: quads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while Chang and her staff may ultimately succeed in securing enough spots, the last-minute scramble often results in prefrosh staying in the Quad or with unenthusiastic hosts...
...place in campus geography. As a student center, it is a little too close to Annenberg to be an appealing outing for first years who come to the building three times a day already. At the same time, it is far enough from the river and the quad houses that there are plenty of other options for food or social activity that are closer to home. Finally, it is entirely too close to the graduate dorms, making the commons usually grad-student heavy. Short of a tax on graduate students--which I find a rather appealing idea--none of these...
...half-escapist "chipped beef" a young, impoverished David imagines a wealth that can satisfy his lust for snobbery: "We give anonymously because the sackfuls of thank-you letters break our hearts with their clumsy handwriting and hopelessly phonetic spelling." Later, in "the incomplete quad," he recalls with nostalgia his shattered dreams of Harvard: "I wasn't sure what a quad was, but I knew that I wanted one desperately. My college friends would own horses and monogrammed shoehorns...
Finally, the tactics employed by the new system are questionable. The policy discourages students from transferring between river houses by preying on their fears of being placed in the Quad. For example, an athlete living in Mather might not apply to live in Kirkland for fear that he or she might be put in the Quad and will have a 25 minute walk to practice in the early morning...
Representatives from the Quad houses said they were particularly spirited while greeting the first-years because they thought their enthusiasm was needed to console many first-years...