Word: winthrops
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Episode One: (a lonely Monday morning, 2 a.m., October 1987, Winthrop House dining hall). While working on a Statistics 100 problem set, I gradually wake up to the reality that a large, grey rat (about the size of a fat guinea pig) is peering down at me from the nearby Coke machine. After a near miss from a No. 2 pencil, the rat hastily scampers behind the machine and out of sight. Although I will probably never know whether the two events are connected, about a week or so after this encounter, the Winthrop House Coke machine...
Episode Two: (November 1988, Winthrop's Standish courtyard, about 1 a.m.) While heading home after a long night of studying in Winthrop's house library, I am greeted on the sidewalk by what I initially think is a squirrel. A quick second look at a long, hairless tail convinces me that this rodent, now running for the bushes, is no innocuous squirrel, but a well...
Episode Three: (January 1989, Winthrop House dining hall, lunch). A pretty cold day, so I opt for the clam chowder. Wrong move. As I go to open my package of S.S. Pierce Saltines my friend points out the very appetizing fact that it has little rat-sized bite marks. I give the crackers to the dining hall checker who promises to bring it to the attention of the proper persons...
...masters of the four houses who originally declined to join the experiment--Adams, Eliot, Lowell and Winthrop--could not be reached for comment yesterday...
...feel like we are not heavily out of line with the rest of the College," said Winthrop House Master James A. Davis...