Word: thayers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gerry Kelley and a lot of people like him. West Point has meant commitment, dedications, self-sacrifice, and above all, the chance to become a man. He knows he's given up a lot to go there. Sitting in the basement of the Hotel Thayer at two in the morning, he tried to explain what it was like...
Indeed he has been raucus on occasions. When Snavely was a freshman, he participated in several infamous parties in Thayer Hall, some of which resulted in considerable damage to his room...
...great selection. At opposite poles of the contemporary spectrum, we have tastefully conservative John Updike '54 in Hollis 11, and Left Conservative Norman Mailer '43 in Grays 11, James Agee '32, now undergoing one of the most sustained revivals of any American author, made his freshman way in Thayer 45. He had considerable inspiration from previous Thayerites. Both leftist-turned-National Reviewer John Dos Passos '16 and poet E. E. Cummings '15 left literary residue from their freshmen years in Thayer...
Freshmen prematurely caught in a bind between academic rigor and the desire for mass recognition need look no further than Thayer 7 for the example provided by the memory of Arthur Schlesinger Jr. '38, historian, adviser to two Presidents, and film critic for Vogue magazine...
...though Harvard has not produced an incredible number of musicians or composers, such popular favorites as Pete Seeger '36 and Tom Rush '60 lived in the Harvard Union and Thayer 7, respectively...