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More than 30 residents of Stoughton Hall were forced into the cold of the Yard last night when an anonymous caller telephoned a bomb threat to Room 13 a peer counseling center in the basement of the freshman dormitory...
...would like to voice my appreciation for the staff of Room 13 in the basement of Stoughton Hall. Freshman year at this University is disconcerting at best and truly depressing at worst, which it was for me last night... You see, I didn't get called back for the Hasty Pudding Show tryouts. It was no surprise when I didn't find my name posted on the door of the clubhouse, but it was still a crowning failure to add to a string of them that I've experienced since arriving at Harvard. For some reason, though, this...
Other such examples are abundant. There is scarcely an alumnus of Canaday Hall whose sensibility has not been shaped by the life of Ward Murphy Canaday '07, the designer of the military jeep. In Stoughton Hall, social outcasts have gained perspective on their plight by recalling the legacy of Lieutenant Governor William Stoughton (Class of 1650), who presided at the Salem witch trials...
...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...
...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...