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...says. "I'd get calls from him at 9:30 at night - 11:30 in Houston - and he'd say he was just leaving the recruiting office and starting on his 40-minute drive home." His easygoing son also developed a hair-trigger temper during his time at the River Oaks and Rosenberg recruiting stations. "He wasn't really a salesman," Robert says, "and recruiters are trying to sell something...
...only downside: the library's only open 12-4 on Friday and Saturday. But getting the chance to gaze at the view of the Charles River from the wide window, however briefly, is cause enough to trek over to Dunster’s library from another House on a Saturday afternoon. Freshmen placed in Dunster: do not despair of your future living in a walk-through next year. Just a tunnel walk away from your room will be a library that takes your breath away...
Winthrop lays claim to a special kind of beauty unique from all other River House libraries. Like the dining hall, it is underground, but cozier that way. The green couches are the puffiest in any House library. And getting to walk down the stairs into the library gives the studier a sense of purpose. At least a dozen original portraits line the walls of the library, all depicting men and a woman with the last name Winthrop. Three of them are named John Winthrop, and a fourth is John Stills Winthrop...
Lowell may be smaller than most House libraries, with a mere three modestly sized tables. But it is still one of the most elegant River House libraries on campus. A wood panel engraving of the Lowell shield—the hand seizing the arrows, encapsulating the motto occasionem cognosce (seize the moment)—gazes on studious Lowellians. The selection of literature on the bottom floor celebrates a special focus on obscure English literature that no one reads anymore (a defect present in many other River House libraries, including Winthrop...
...Past governments have had their chances. Lured by good rail and river links, new industries poured into Canning Town in the mid-19th century. The Thames Ironworks Ship Building and Engineering Co. opened a 30-acre site at Bow Creek in 1846, bashing out ships for much of Europe. Eager for jobs, workers from all over the country poured in. The seasonal or casual work on offer meant few could afford comfortable places to live, though; landlords, well aware of the fact, threw up cheap housing without toilets, bathrooms and oftentimes drinking water. The over-crowding and disease appalled visitors...