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FAS Dean Michael D. Smith addressed a crowd of more than 100 students, faculty, staff, and alumni at the groundbreaking for the Old Quincy Test Project. Smith, who chairs the executive committee on House Renewal, hailed the groundbreaking as a celebration of Harvard’s residential system and its centrality to undergraduate education.

Old Quincy Test Project breaks ground

FAS leaders tout first step in House renewal process

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DateMay 3, 2012July 19, 2019

Former Quincy House resident Tuan Ho '09 was going to be a doctor but then invented Tivli, a way to stream TV programming over a broadband Internet connection. Med school would wait, to Ho's parents' chagrin. Luckily, Quincy House Masters Lee and Deb Gehrke had run into this situation before, as had the House’s business and pre-med tutors. Along with friends and classmates, the Quincy advisers helped Ho through an at-times rocky transition.

Architecture of experience

Harvard’s House system nurtures students to find their passions

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DateMay 2, 2012July 11, 2019

A model of a cluster common room highlights the changes coming to Quincy House. “The cluster arrangement will allow us to eliminate walk-throughs, maximize the number of single rooms, and transform the lower level into common space, all of which will boost quality of life for the House’s undergraduate residents,” explained Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds.

Innovative clusters

Room mockup provides preview of Old Quincy House renewal

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DateMarch 25, 2012July 19, 2019

Shape of things to come

Old Quincy transformation will provide lessons for House renewal

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DateMay 20, 2011July 19, 2019