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Irish culture has been an indelible part of Boston, but the names on our red-brick buildings tell a different story: Adams, Lowell, Winthrop. It would be easy to assume that for Harvard students, Irish culture consists of little more than guzzling alcohol in Tommy Doyle’s Irish Pub or at St. Patrick’s Day Stein Club...
...groups would be assigned to nearby Houses. Under this new system, the Houses are divided into four “neighborhoods.” Cabot, Currier, and Pforzheimer make up one neighborhood; Adams, Lowell, and Quincy comprise another; Dunster, Mather, and Leverett create the third; and Eliot, Kirkland, and Winthrop round out the last neighborhood.“I think it’s caused a lot of restructuring of groups last minute,” Frank A. DeSimone ’09 said about the neighborhood blocking option. DeSimone has chosen to block with two of his roommates...
This professional namer--he never gets a name of his own--has been summoned to a small, geographically nonspecific town to arbitrate a dispute over its name. It used to be called Winthrop, after its 19th century patriarch, but a local software magnate is looking for something more hip and happening--"New Prospera" has been suggested. Also in the running is the town's original name, its Ur-name, chosen by the former slaves who founded it: Freedom...
Adam Goldenberg ’08 is a social studies concentrator in Winthrop House. His column appears on alternate Fridays...
...early morning pianist drew complaints from resident of Winthrop House, entryway H, last Monday, sending officers to the scene to investigate. Officers arrived and found no evidence of piano-playing...