Word: rivers
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During a time of heightened racial tension, many in this large new group of blacks saw the river houses as "monuments to the society that had excluded their ancestors. Currier was new and had no baggage," Herschbach says...
Previously, the Harvard men lived in houses near the Charles River, while the Radcliffe women lived in dormitories in the Radcliffe Quad which have since been restructured into Cabot and Pforzheimer houses...
...Adams House Raft Race that used to take place annually on the Charles River, Currier once entered a thirty-foot long Viking Ship. The ship did quite well, although "since no one ever knew what the rules were, if you crossed first, you never won," Hershbach says...
...article quotes Tadesse's letter: "I am like a person who can't swim chocking [sic] for life in a river...All you have to do is give me a hand and put into words what you already know...
Turning off Garden Street onto Shepard Street, the Quad comes into view suddenly and startlingly: a wide-open space framed by classically Harvardian red-brick buildings, a mirage in the dense residential area that surrounds it. Bertram Hall is on the corner; it is older than most of the River Houses and originally held 12 Radcliffe women in grand style. The curved staircase rising from the front door, the stained glass windows and the fire-escape balconies on each landing still make it one of the best places to live on campus...