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The Harvard of Harvard Houses. Eliot House is one of twelve residential houses for upperclassmen at Harvard University and one of the seven original houses at the College. Opened in 1931, the house was named after Charles William Eliot, who served as president of the university for forty years (1869–1909). Welcome home.
Traditions. Before Harvard opted to use a lottery system to assign residences to upperclassmen (beginning with the class of 1999), Eliot was known as a 'prep' house, providing accommodation to the university's social elite, and being known as "more Harvard than Harvard".
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Eliot House is one of the 12 residential colleges at Harvard, named after Charles Eliot, the president who introduced the elective system. Learn about its history, architecture, traditions, and faculty deans.
Eliot House is named after Charles William Eliot, Harvard's president from 1896 to 1909. It offers students a library, a grille, an art studio, a movie theater, a dark room, and more.
Historical Notes Eliot House is one of Harvard's twelve undergraduate residential communities. It was completed in 1931 to plans by Coolidge Shepley Bulfinch and Abbott of Boston. Eliot House was one of the Harvard's original seven River Houses, undergraduate dormitories modeled on the English residential colleges at Oxford and Cambridge.
Sep 22, 2011 · Named in honor of Charles William Eliot, president of Harvard from 1869 to 1909, Eliot House was opened in 1931. It was one of the original seven Houses at the College following the plan by Eliot’s successor, Abbot Lawrence Lowell, to “revitalize education and revive egalitarianism at Harvard College.”.
Feb 16, 2012 · Wild wood Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer. In Eliot House, interested students flock to a basement woodshop to construct tables, boxes, or chairs, to turn vases or bowls, or to create other works.
