Word: thayers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...test the benefits of new hoods, Abernathy and company have suggested installing them in only one floor of Conant Hall--one of the Chem Lab buildings--before making any firm decisions. They had the same idea in mind when they suggested last summer's Thayer Hall regulations, Abernathy says. Aside from insulating Thayer's roof, replacing its incandescent lighting with fluorescent lights, and installing smaller showerheads, the renovation teams equipped each room with thermostatic controls, Leahy says. Abernathy says he believes the new heating procedure will eliminate excessively hot or cold rooms; if it proves cost- and energy-efficient...
...Houses, though, because energy investigators cannot study small portions of a House without disrupting students' lives, Abernathy says. But he adds that a study of the Houses may take place in summer 1981. Next summer is also the target date for completing work on the Yard dorms, pending the Thayer experiment. "We would do the whole Yard in one fell swoop--I'd say it would take two or three days" to insulate each Yard building, Abernathy says...
Even last year, several dorms--Holworthy, the middle entry of Thayer--were all male. But the Freshman Dean's Office proudly announces that this year, for the first time, the entire Yard is "coedded," to nearly everyone's pleasure. It has been many years since the advisers received a request for a single-sex dorm...
...Thayer Plant, a ninth-grader at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, captured the women's crown with a time of 35:37. Plant, who trains with Harvard assistant track coach John Babington's Liberty Athletic Club, credited her win to the good competition she faces in practice...
...Tracy Thayer, a first-year student at the Business School who ran the Cape Cod Marathon in 3:17 in December to qualify for her second Boston race, also credited the crowd with pulling her through in 3:30.24. "It's the one time a year I can feel like a star; if you smile the people start cheering. Wellesley was just deafening and I actually sped up. At Heartbreak Hill, the crowd really kept me going and from 18 miles on, I ran with my thumbs raised I was so psyched...