Word: stoughton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard counselors have especially high praise for an imaginative agency in the basement of Stoughton Hall called Room 13. Founded in the early 70's as a drug crisis center, Room 13 currently serves as an all-night sounding board for undergraduates with anything at all on their mind--from excitement about a good grade to suicidal depression...
...sophomores began to band together and celebrate in their newly excited rebelliousness. They burned bonfires at midnight in the Yard. A student was suspended for nine months after he dropped a large cannon ball, with an insulting note to his tutor attached, from the fourth floor of Stoughton. In early November, a tutor, attempting to calm the excitement of the vandals, was greeted by a bucket of ink and water dropped over his head. One night later, a large group of students "met at the 'sign of the golden eagle' on the common at midnight, formed themselves into separate parties...
...climax their animosity, their pranks and their reckless insubordination. The "Blacks" continued to inform on these antics, and the rest of the class harrassed and vexed this moralistic minority. On March 10, 1823, "A large shower bath belonging to Dorr [a "Black"] was taken from the fourth story of Stoughton, and having been filled with wood, etc. was burnt at midnight in the middle of the College Yard in commemoration of the second anniversary of the Blacklist...
...University focused its attention on steam-heated buildings, because they are more difficult to control than water-heated structures. Parts of some water-heated dorms--Grays, Hollis, Stoughton, and Weld--will get thermostats...
...seen the proof from his University Hall office window. As the seasons changed each year from fall to winter, the heat in the Yard dorms would go on--and windows would open, Leahy recalls. This year, the windows in Thayer remained shut. And across the Yard, in Stoughton, where workmen installed valves in all but the top floor, windows remained closed as well--except for those...