Word: winthrope
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order to provide for a few additional undergraduates in the Houses which were heavily over-subscribed this spring, the residence owned by the University at 11 Riverview Avenue has been made a part of Winthrop House...
...building will be renovated by the Maintenance Department during the summer; the lot will be enclosed with a fence and an entrance will be made in the east end of Winthrop House so as to provide access for the men living at 11 Riverview...
...solemn moaning fills the warm air. It oozes into Lowell study rooms and library. It jumps the street over to Winthrop's lighted cram centers. Inhuman, the sound swells and fades, changes catch with a sobbing descent, or rasps anew to tortured heights. Angry heads appear, and irritated voices dispute with the sound, imploring or threatening...
...some small consolation to the several hundred members of the bulky Class of 1940 who tried unsuccessfully to squeeze their way into a House system already uncomfortably crowded except in the high-price level, is the announcement that an old frame building on Riverview Avenue will be added to Winthrop House. While not a very pretty looking dwelling at present, industrious yeomen from the Maintenance Department will attack it this summer, spruce up the interior, put in some plumbing, and spray onto the walls that etherial something which makes a House different from any other dwelling. Then, in the fall...
...aspersions should be cast on this addition to Winthrop because of its appearance. The Kirkland House library is a charming example of how refreshing a frame building can be in this brick and stone University. But nevertheless, for Harvard to be forced to open a tiny unit like the Riverside hall, which will indeed barely scrape the surface of a really important habitation problem, is for the University to admit just how difficult that problem has become. Rearrangement of suites here and there has made available in all accomodations for about fifteen more men in the Houses--a few squirm...