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...past few weeks,” Gibson said. Workers have already begun to install cardio equipment and line the stairwells with “wet paint” signs. Other recreational facilities that had opened temporarily during the renovation—such as in the Gordon Track and the Wigglesworth Hall basement—have been shut down in anticipation of the MAC’s reopening. “The space at Wigg was very popular and well-received,” Gibson said, “so we’ll work with other people at the College...
...distributed to students upon request, sparing them the 10 dollar bill for each of the pillows currently being marketed by Harvard Student Agencies.RED PHONE EXODUSJoining institutional pillows in the ranks of the deceased dorm room accessory, the red phones that were once standard issue for everyone from Wigglesworth to Winthrop also appear to have fallen casualty to underuse, having been removed from most dormitory rooms by University Information Services. “At one time, the red phones were the primary way to provide students with E-911 access prior to the ubiquity of cell phones,” wrote...
After I left Harvard in the 1980s, I did not “stay in touch.” While I truly enjoyed and appreciated my undergraduate years at Harvard, two additional years of eating in the Freshman Union and vicariously experiencing freshman angst as a Proctor in Wigglesworth kept me from ever romanticizing or becoming nostalgic for my own undergraduate days. I don’t know if it was swabbing stairwells on Sunday mornings, or chasing squirrels that tumbled down Wigg B’s chimney with a broom, or locating freshmen who had decamped to follow...
When Gates—a denizen of Wigglesworth Hall A-11 during his freshman year—first arrived at Harvard in 1973, few classes succeeded in captivating him in the same way that the computer industry would a few years later...
...Board of Overseers on Oct. 8, 1956, approximately 1,200 additional students were living in Harvard undergraduate housing above the number the dorms were built to accommodate. Upperclassmen without space in their houses were being forced to retreat to the freshmen-only yard, taking up residence in Wigglesworth Hall. The College was in desperate need of more space...