Word: winthrops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would seem appropriate to point out that there are not--indeed there could not be--what are called house "types." Differences in "character" between houses are far exceeded by heterogeneity within each house. Nevertheless, it may be pertinent to note that Winthrop is full of sweaty athletes; Lowell is the poetry house; Dunster's drunks give that house its only spirit; Kirkland men are virtually invisible; Eliot is crawling with preppies; and Adams House consider no one who isn't both greasy and Bohemian. Aside from these variations, the houses are really quite the same...
...though. It's at the end of a tremendous straight corridor which starts in the central kitchen under Kirkland. They say the best of them, if they take the first curve at a dead run, can coast all the way to Leverett. Of course the turnoffs at Lowell and Winthrop are festooned with multicolored blotches from power skids. Most of it washes off, but the artificial coloring in the cherry pie is indelible...
Athletically, the House has won the Straus Trophy, signifying the overall intramural championship, for three years, and Dunster teams are now fighting leading Winthrop for a fourth title. Eight excellent squash courts are located in the House, and the annual tournament drew over 60 entries this year...
Kelley spoke at a Democratic Club forum, held at Winthrop House, on "The Ethics of Lobbying." Other speakers were Foster Furcolo, a leading candidate for the Democratie gubernatorial nomination, and Samuel P. Huntington, assistant professor of Government...
Foster Furcolo, a leading Massachusetts Democrat, will be the principal speaker at a discussion tonight on "The Ethics of Lobbying." The meeting, which is sponsored by the Harvard Young Democratic Club, will be held at 8 p.m. in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room...