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Rooms: Run the gamut. Rumor has it H- and I-entryways used to be the servants?? quarters, which is perhaps why upperclassmen housing is mostly in A-, B-, and C-entryways. Claverly Hall, built in 1893, was the first of the Gold Coast dormitories, luxurious alternatives to Yard living for someone of Harvard’s most privileged students. Apthorp House, now home to Adams House Masters Judith S. Palfrey '67 and John G. "Sean" Palfrey '67, is the oldest part of Adams, built in 1760. Four lucky seniors each year live in the Adams?...
...earnings differentials, which have continued to grow, seemingly exponentially. It seems quaint, if not unfathomable, that just three decades ago the differentials that then existed—generally two- to fivefold in earnings between business leaders and doctors and lawyers, or five- to tenfold with professors, scientists, and public servants??were often rationalized by the country’s highest-ranking graduates as reasonable additional compensation to balance the lower standing of business jobs among their peers...
...time, aristocratic white men— who donned black coats and ties and enjoyed the services of in-House servants??lived in the Houses. Today, women and students of diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds comprise Harvard’s undergraduate population...
...still manage to frighten residents today. Eliot has always had a reputation of housing Harvard’s elite, but rumor has it that its residents haven’t always received the royal treatment. “I heard that in Eliot, you have to sleep in the servants?? quarters as a sophomore,” says Jasper N. Henderson ’12. Some Eliot residents defend their house’s high-end status, such as Christine F. Matera ’11. “I’ve never heard of that...
...column on October 4 (“An Army of Indentured Servants??) Susan E. McGregor ’05 portrayed H.R. 163, a bill proposing to reintroduce the draft, and its “plan for indentured servitude to the President of the United States” as a viable proposal of which we should be afraid. In a display of fabulously bad timing for McGregor, the House suddenly took up H.R. 163 on October 5 and defeated it by a vote...