Eliot
Nearly Half of Harvard Houses to Seek New Leaders as Eliot Deans Announce Departure
Eliot House Faculty Deans Douglas A. Melton and Gail A. O’Keefe will step down at the end of the spring semester after a decade of helming the House.
Charles W. Eliot
Selected as Harvard’s president in 1859, Charles W. Eliot ’52 holds the record for the longest-serving University president.
Winthrop Tutors Sue Eliot Faculty Dean for Defamation
Winthrop House tutors Carl L. Miller and Valencia Miller filed a lawsuit against Eliot House Faculty Dean Gail A. O’Keefe in Massachusetts Superior Court on Thursday, alleging that O’Keefe made defamatory statements both about their “professional reputation” and their response to a confrontation between them and a College student on April 3.
Charles River Sunset
The sun sets on some of Harvard's 12 undergraduate residential Houses Wednesday evening.
Eliot House Flu Shots
HealthPALs stand in Eliot House’s dining hall during dinner hours to offer students the flu vaccine.
With New Winthrop Grille, Mozz Stick Market Heats Up
“If you want to add Nutella, peanut butter, and Oreos to your milkshake, go ahead. If you wanna add Nutella to your grilled cheese, possibly also go ahead.”
Grille for Vegas
The Eliot Grille on Wednesday night. Eliot Grille donated their proceeds from Monday night to support the aftermath of the Las Vegas shooting.
Nicholas Cashion in Eliot Grill
Nicholas P. Cashion ’17 is an Eliot House resident and Grille worker.
Eliot Resident Proposes New Solution for Energy Conservation
Aldis Elfarsdottir '19 noticed that Eliot's heating system gives students little control over the temperatures in their rooms and has begun devising a solution.
An Eliot Evening
Just days before a proposed strike by Harvard University Dining workers, Eliot House residents dine on dessert. Harvard is stockpiling frozen foods in its dining halls ahead of a potential strike by Harvard’s dining services workers, according to workers stationed across the College’s dining halls.
Eliot Students Invite Harvard to 'Escape the Room'
While many Harvard students feel the need to escape the pressures of academic life, they can now try their hand at escaping a room full of puzzles in the basement of Eliot House.
Eliot House Escape the Room
Saad Amer ‘16 (left) and two of his partners solve puzzles with clues during their one-hour Escape the Room challenge in Eliot basement.
Eliot
<p>“E-L-I-O-T, you just won the lottery” basically sums up the enthusiasm and house pride that freshman can expect if they are assigned to Eliot House. Equipped with a number of unique resources and a friendly and welcoming community Eliot House continues to be “more Harvard than Harvard”—but in only the best ways possible.</p>
Broken Gender-Neutral Bathroom Sign Raises Concerns
Eliot House residents who were dismayed by a broken gender-neutral bathroom sign in the House on Wednesday characterized the act as sexist and offensive to students who identify as transgender.
Eliot House All-Gender Bathroom Defaced
In March, Eliot House residents discovered that the sign on the gender-neutral bathroom near their dining hall had been taken down. Someone had taped up a colored version of the original sign by the end of the day.