Word: gathered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students spend a significant portion of their tenure at the College in the dining halls, but few stop between forkfuls of chicken dish X to notice the effect dining halls have on their daily lives. All House dining halls were intended to be communal spaces where House residents could gather at the end of the day to eat like one big, happy family far removed from the vast impersonality of Harvard University, Inc. Each House struggles daily with reconciling institutional efficiency with residential comfort, and each House's architecture reflects an attempt to merge these two forces. Below...
...embraces him with its grandma's kitchen-like intimacy, achieved through glowing white walls muted with warm lights and dotted with cabinets grandma would love. The service area also avoids the typically antiseptic flavor of the serving area by refraining serving food on warmed platters that students can gather around like a family sharing in a buffet-style dinner...
Number one on the "to not do" list is droning. Slide presentations are a formality. Students attend the presentations to speak with representatives, greet old friends, gather pamphlets, and maybe to leave with a new mug. Short presentations will make a better impression than long ones; chances are that students will tune out after the fourth pie chart...
...participants will gather today and tomorrow for a series of discussions and talks, mostly held in the dimly-lit second floor Naumburg Room in the Fogg Art Museum, specially outfitted with translation booths and better lighting for the occasion...
...Brainard, the office's communications director. A formal, informational packet explaining all of the library system's components and available resources has never been composed (the system consists mainly of 11 libraries with a plethora of resources), and the communications office thought it would be a good idea to gather all important library information such as phone numbers and access policies into one packet because the library is such a "crucial part of Harvard education." Brainard uses the "common" misconception that "the Theater Library" is not a part of the Harvard system as an example of why an informational packet...