Word: victorian
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...operative Society, better known as the Co-op, was originally established in 1958 as low-cost alternative housing for the male students of Harvard. Although it is now populated by thirty-one students of all sexes, the Co-op has remained true to its inexpensive roots. Within two Victorian houses, students do all their own cooking, cleaning, and decision-making. The Co-op is set up on a points system, so that residents must fulfill a certain amount of points every two weeks by signing up to do chores like preparing soup and salad for the night?...
WOMEN’S VICTORIAN COFFEE...
...women played host to a regatta for the first time in weeks, competing in the Women’s Victorian Coffee Urn on the Charles River on Saturday. Sunday’s winds proved to be too much, ending the regatta after just a day’s events. Harvard was one of 17 schools competing, racing 16 times on the way to a second-place finish, seven points behind Navy...
...With the Victorian Coffee Urn finished after one day, the women headed over to MIT to catch some of the co-ed regatta...
...long history, which means its subjects have developed an ambiguous self-consciousness about their participation in it. But that only adds depth to the films, which are now being duplicated by other hands in other countries. Watching these lives unfold has been for Apted something like "living in a Victorian novel"--one that he says "becomes more intimate and emotional" for him (as it does for us) as the years accumulate. --By Richard Schickel...