On Oct 20, 2007, at 4:46 PM, Robert Wrubel wrote:
> What were these "common rooms"? As I recall there
> were dining halls, quadrangles, and a town commons
> next to the freshman campus, on which statues of
> people like Nathan Hale stood.
The common rooms were just outside the dining halls in the residential colleges. Leather wing chairs, fireplaces, old heavy wooden tables - kind of like an old WASP club.
There's a replica of that Nathan Hale statue in front of CIA headquarters in Langley, by the way.
Doug