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...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...
...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...
...north side of Stoughton Hall, there's a door to the basement, distinguished only by a doorbell and a small red sign. Most students pass by Room 13 without even noticing it, and few have more than a vague idea of what goes on inside. But in the dank recesses of Stoughton basement a group of 30 undergraduates operates a telephone and drop-in counseling service for Harvard students...
Although Room 13 is not for everyone--one student says she'd be "too embarrassed" to go down to Stoughton basement and reveal her problems to a stranger--every year Room 13 has a few "regulars" who can't seem to get enough of the counseling staff. But Siegelman says the group tries to discourage students who use the service as a substitute friend. "If someone is down here for two or three hours every night we're doing more harm than good...