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...distinctively twenties air. The built-in cabinet and bar are “conducive to parties—cocktail parties,” Butler amends. It is hard to imagine any other kind of gathering taking place in a room with a Winslow Homer painting hanging beside a window overlooking the scenic Charles. Butler proclaims that access to the entryway is restricted to keyholders rather than the more typical swipe-card entry, making it an “ultra-exclusive” enclave. He adds, “Nobody knows about this room —it?...
...Eliot ’09 once lived here. As well as the fellow freshmen who occasionally arrive just to behold the room’s legendary beauty, T.S. Eliot fanatics have been known to drop by. Jackson recalls that one woman was particuarly insistent on looking out the window, announcing, “I want to see T.S. Eliot’s view.” Sadly for the literary-minded, the multi-panelled window of Apley 42 now looks out on a distinctly uninspiring parking...
...ceiling’s really high, plus the window seat is amazing,” says Maya N. Anand ’03 of the Claverly double she shares with Vivian W. Lien ’03. Despite Clavery’s legendary art deco, Grand Hotel ambience, the girls claim their corner room is “totally overlooked” in the housing lottery. The spacious suite boasts two singles for the pair and a sizeable foyer—pronounced the French way, of course. But the jewel of the suite is definitely its huge, semicircular common room...
...anniversary, but the anxiety has only built since then. War jitters, orange alerts and duct-tape mania have rendered literal our most childlike, monsters-under-the-bed fears: that a tall building can collapse like a house of cards, that something bad can seep in ghostlike through your window and hurt...
...point out that “all times of the year are busy,” the first week of classes is the least stressful and hence most productive time for serious advising meetings. (Notably, it is precisely the current shopping period that gives students even this small window of flexibility.) Additionally, these new advising meetings will naturally be less valuable—students might only have a few-line course description at their disposal: Professors are not being required to make any substantive course information—like syllabi—available before preregistration. If Harvard were serious about...