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...Thayer Hall is well known for its central location, impressive common room, and...Victorian-era ghosts? Yes, Thayer, long rumored to be a host for paranormal visitors, claimed one of the coveted spots on Internet Web site Hollow Hills’ “Haunted New England Colleges” list...
...writes Nathan Gauthier, an Assistant Director of OFS, in an e-mail to The Crimson. As a result, Harvard won the Charles W. Eliot Award for organizations with exceptional vision and excellence in planning. Harvard is currently waiting for the U.S. Green Building Council to confirm 139-year-old Thayer Hall as its first LEED-certified dorm. However, the freshmen of Thayer will also be the last dorm residents to receive a plaque in the near future.“We are not going to pursue LEED-EB (the certification intended for existing buildings) for the rest of the dorms...
...episode, “Reunion,” beat out three other episodes of 30 Rock to win the award on a night in which the show was nominated for awards 22 times. Kentaro Fujita ’00, who was Hubbard’s freshman year roommate in Thayer and is now a professor at the Ohio State University, said that he was happy to hear the news but not surprised. “Matt [Hubbard] was one of those guys who always liked to laugh,” Fujita said. “He had sort...
...emergence of aerial and trench warfare during World War I gave rise to the strategy - and art - of camouflaged battle dress, sparking an unexpectedly fruitful collaboration among soldiers, artists and naturalists like Abbott Thayer, whose 1909 book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom became required reading for the U.S. Army's newly launched unit of camoufleurs. Now that troops had to avoid bombs dropped from the sky, mines underfoot and bullets from pretty much everywhere else, the gloriously regal (not to mention flamboyant) garb worn in an earlier era of warfare began to seem a bit outdated, if not downright...
...blend into a soldier's environment by using a system of light-emitting diodes and a small camera. Another contractor, AAE, has patented a type of fabric that prevents infrared radar from detecting body heat. It's calling it the "stealth poncho." It's a long way from Abbott Thayer's sketchbook...