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...whom our modern Valentine’s Day is named after,” said TLR co-president Leo J. Keliher ’10. TLR, dedicated to premarital sexual abstinence, held a “History of Valentine’s Day” presentation yesterday evening in Winthrop House. Surprisingly, neither of the two St. Valentines had any connection to romance, according to Keliher. Valentine’s Day became associated with love some eleven centuries after the saint had died in a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer. “Chaucer wrote the first poem in English celebrating...
...education of students. If all it took to improve the standard of learning in secondary schools were massive overhauls, then we would have had those high standards a couple billion dollars ago. Ronald K. Kamden ’10, a Crimson associate editorial chair, is an economics concentrator in Winthrop House...
Adams House has had a swimming pool since 1907, but for a few hours last night, Winthrop House got one too. Backed-up drains and rainfall inundated the House’s dining hall, gym, basement, and several entryways with sewage, forcing some students to flee to other Houses for dinner. Winthrop House Master Stephen P. Rosen ’74 said last night that 15 people, including a crew from the Harvard Emergency Operations Center, would have the flood cleaned up by 3 a.m. this morning, in time to open for breakfast. According to Rosen, crumbling infrastructure in Winthrop...
...Partly Cloudy Patriot” and “Assassination Vacation,” which takes a historical tour of the scenes of three presidential assassinations. She is now writing a book on the history of the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the Puritan squabbling between John Winthrop, Roger Williams, and Anne Hutchinson that resulted in the founding of Rhode Island and Connecticut. “Do they tell you when they’re indoctrinating you in Harvard history that your school was founded because a bunch of poor Massachusetts boys were outsmarted by a girl...
Jonathan B. Steinman ’10, a Crimson sports editor, is the Winthrop House Representative for the Resource Efficiency Program and a Chemistry concentrator...