Eliot House

Eliot House
Eliot House
Residential House
Harvard University
	Eliot House on the Charles River
	Shield
Location	101 Dunster Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Coordinates	42°22′13″N 71°07′15″W
Established	1930
Named for	Charles William Eliot
Colours	Blue, Red, White
Sister college	Jonathan Edwards College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Faculty Deans	David Elmer and Bonnie Talbert
Dean	Andrea Wright
Undergraduates	450
Called	Eliotites
Website	eliot.harvard.edu

Eliot House is one of twelve undergraduate residential Houses at Harvard University. It is 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).

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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". Describing Eliot House in the late 1950s and early 1960s, author Alston Chase wrote, "[A]lthough most Harvard houses in those days reflected the values of Boston Brahmin society ... Eliot was more extreme".

The motto 'Floreat Domus de Eliot' and 'Domus' are traditional chants and greetings, particularly on Housing Day, when freshman find out their housing assignments. Some traditions of Eliot House are the charity event An Evening with Champions, the Eliot Boat Club (an intramural crew team), formal dinners such as the Charles Eliot Dinner, a strong sense of house pride, and the annual Spring Fete.

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Eliot's prominent belltower is featured in many films, including Old School; Legally Blonde; Chasing Liberty; and Euro Trip, which features the tower at the end of the film, incorrectly identifying it as Oberlin College. Eliot House is also featured prominently in Love Story and The Social Network.

Notable former residents of the house include:

James Agee^[2]
Leonard Bernstein^[3]
Benazir Bhutto^[4]
Ben Bradlee^[5]
Archibald Cox^[6]
T.S. Eliot (as Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry)^[7]
Patrick X. Gallagher^[8]
John Harbison^[9]
Edward Gorey^[10]
Rashida Jones^[11]
Eduardo Saverin^[12]
Ted Kaczynski^[13]
Jack Lemmon^[14]
Frank O'Hara^[15]
Thomas Oliphant^[16]
George Plimpton^[17]
Jay Rockefeller^[18]

[1]
"Bonnie Talbert, David Elmer named faculty deans of Eliot House". Harvard Gazette.
[2]
Eliot, Thomas Stearns (October 6, 1932). "Letter to Eleanor Hinkley, 6 October 1932". The Letters of T.S. Eliot, 1932-1933. Yale University. ISBN 9780300211801. Retrieved October 10, 2018.
[3]
Fabry, Alexander B. (October 5, 2006). "Leonard Bernstein". The Harvard Crimson. Harvard University. Retrieved May 27, 2009.
[4]
Lindsay, Jay (December 29, 2007). "Classmates recall Bhutto's intensity". USA Today. Retrieved May 27, 2009.
[5]
Bradlee, Ben (1996). A Good Life. Simon & Schuster. p. 50. ISBN 0-684-82523-6.
[6]
Gormley, Ken; Richardson, Elliot (1999). Archibald Cox: Conscience of a Nation. Da Capo Press. p. 23. ISBN 0-7382-0147-2.
[7]
"ELIOT GIVES FIRST IN NORTON LECTURE GROUP". Harvard Crimson. 1932. Retrieved February 5, 2022.
[8]
"Bound Brook Man Awarded Assistantship At Princeton". The Central Jersey Home News. June 17, 1956. p. 8. Retrieved December 28, 2019.
[9]
"Composer Harbison To Receive 2000 Harvard Arts Medal". The Harvard University Gazette. March 9, 2000. Archived from the original on June 4, 2011. Retrieved June 3, 2009.
[10]
Dery, Mark (2018). "Edward Gorey, Frank O'Hara and Harvard's Gay Underground". LitHub. p. .
[11]
"John Harvard's Journal, Commencement 1997". Harvard Magazine. Harvard University. Archived from the original on March 5, 2012. Retrieved January 23, 2010.
[12]
"Harvard Alumni Directory". Harvard Alumni. Harvard University. Retrieved June 5, 2016.
[13]
Pickover, Clifford A. (1999). Strange brains and genius: the secret lives of eccentric scientists and madmen. HarperCollins. p. 170. ISBN 0-688-16894-9.
[14]
Pepp, Jessica A. (February 24, 1995). "Jack Lemmon to Receive Arts Medal". The Harvard Crimson. Harvard University. Retrieved January 23, 2010.
[15]
Dery, Mark (2018). "Edward Gorey, Frank O'Hara and Harvard's Gay Underground". LitHub. p. .
[16]
Weisberg, Stuart E. (2009). Barney Frank: the story of America's only left-handed, gay, Jewish congressman. University of Massachusetts Press. p. 54. ISBN 978-1-55849-721-4. thomas oliphant Eliot House.
[17]
Aldrich, Nelson W. (2009). George, Being George: George Plimpton's Life as Told, Admired, Deplored, and Envied by 200 Friends, Relatives, Lovers, Acquaintances, Rivals--and a Few Unappreciative Observers. Random House. p. 61. ISBN 978-0-8129-7418-8.
[18]
Solomon, Jason M. (March 5, 1992). "The World According to Kozol". The Harvard Crimson. Harvard University. Retrieved April 5, 2010.

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[1] [1]
"Bonnie Talbert, David Elmer named faculty deans of Eliot House". Harvard Gazette.

[2] [2]
Eliot, Thomas Stearns (October 6, 1932). "Letter to Eleanor Hinkley, 6 October 1932". The Letters of T.S. Eliot, 1932-1933. Yale University. ISBN 9780300211801. Retrieved October 10, 2018.

[3] [3]
Fabry, Alexander B. (October 5, 2006). "Leonard Bernstein". The Harvard Crimson. Harvard University. Retrieved May 27, 2009.

[4] [4]
Lindsay, Jay (December 29, 2007). "Classmates recall Bhutto's intensity". USA Today. Retrieved May 27, 2009.

[5] [5]
Bradlee, Ben (1996). A Good Life. Simon & Schuster. p. 50. ISBN 0-684-82523-6.

[6] [6]
Gormley, Ken; Richardson, Elliot (1999). Archibald Cox: Conscience of a Nation. Da Capo Press. p. 23. ISBN 0-7382-0147-2.

[7] [7]
"ELIOT GIVES FIRST IN NORTON LECTURE GROUP". Harvard Crimson. 1932. Retrieved February 5, 2022.

[HomeNews1956-8] [8]
"Bound Brook Man Awarded Assistantship At Princeton". The Central Jersey Home News. June 17, 1956. p. 8. Retrieved December 28, 2019.

[9] [9]
"Composer Harbison To Receive 2000 Harvard Arts Medal". The Harvard University Gazette. March 9, 2000. Archived from the original on June 4, 2011. Retrieved June 3, 2009.

[10] [10]
Dery, Mark (2018). "Edward Gorey, Frank O'Hara and Harvard's Gay Underground". LitHub. p. .

[11] [11]
"John Harvard's Journal, Commencement 1997". Harvard Magazine. Harvard University. Archived from the original on March 5, 2012. Retrieved January 23, 2010.

[12] [12]
"Harvard Alumni Directory". Harvard Alumni. Harvard University. Retrieved June 5, 2016.

[13] [13]
Pickover, Clifford A. (1999). Strange brains and genius: the secret lives of eccentric scientists and madmen. HarperCollins. p. 170. ISBN 0-688-16894-9.

[14] [14]
Pepp, Jessica A. (February 24, 1995). "Jack Lemmon to Receive Arts Medal". The Harvard Crimson. Harvard University. Retrieved January 23, 2010.

[15] [15]
Dery, Mark (2018). "Edward Gorey, Frank O'Hara and Harvard's Gay Underground". LitHub. p. .

[16] [16]
Weisberg, Stuart E. (2009). Barney Frank: the story of America's only left-handed, gay, Jewish congressman. University of Massachusetts Press. p. 54. ISBN 978-1-55849-721-4. thomas oliphant Eliot House.

[17] [17]
Aldrich, Nelson W. (2009). George, Being George: George Plimpton's Life as Told, Admired, Deplored, and Envied by 200 Friends, Relatives, Lovers, Acquaintances, Rivals--and a Few Unappreciative Observers. Random House. p. 61. ISBN 978-0-8129-7418-8.

[18] [18]
Solomon, Jason M. (March 5, 1992). "The World According to Kozol". The Harvard Crimson. Harvard University. Retrieved April 5, 2010.

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