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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first-year dorms were scheduled for the overhauls, which began in the summer of 1992. Lionel, the exterior of Massachusetts, Mower and Weld Halls went under the hammer at the end of May. But while all needed renovation, one dorm was more needy than the others--Weld, which was gutted and refitted...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: UNDER THE HAMMER: | 6/29/1994 | See Source »

...sound of Billy Joel's "Piano Man." She had an obsession with the music of Donovan. She claimed that while falling asleep, she could hallucinate to the music of Bob Marley. She knocked on doors and asked friends to come out and play. She got kicked out of dorm crew for refusing to do her job. In the short stories she wrote in high school she concocted, for her friends' confusion, an obsession with a man wearing a ski mask, behind the wheel of a beige pick-up truck; the character drove through every story she wrote for about...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, | Title: Her Poetry Comes From Ordinary Life | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...though the filing out of junior and sophomore friends wasn't bad enough, it seems like half of the senior class is gone as well, vacationing in Europe or the Cape, searching for housing in New York, or jobs in LA, cleaning strange toilets for dorm crew. The lie was that after everybody else had departed we would have the place to ourselves to reminisce. We do indeed have the place to ourselves, but we are hardly reminiscing. Because I realize that June 9, the "bang" in the year's end has more to do with Harvard than...

Author: By W. CINQUE Henderson jr., | Title: Ending With a Whimper | 6/7/1994 | See Source »

...check into our dorms by a certain hour...and you had to write where you were going," remembers Sylvia Maynard '44. "The dorm mother was in loco parentis...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Romance Blossomed In Wartime | 6/7/1994 | See Source »

...Relations with boys were more formal and had to be by special arrangement," Maynard says. "You didn't just happen to casually meet boys around the dorm or brushing your teeth or things like that. Dates were arranged and people dressed up for them...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Romance Blossomed In Wartime | 6/7/1994 | See Source »

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