Community_and_traditions Cabot_House

1 community , traditions

1.1 dining hall
1.2 stein club
1.3 cabot café
1.4 cabot house theater company
1.5 intramural sports
1.6 spring formal
1.7 dutch auction
1.8 lambing
1.9 festivus

community , traditions
dining hall

cabot s dining hall different @ river. unlike other house dining halls, cabot s not enormous, paneled in mahogany , decorated oil paintings, marble busts, , medieval tapestries. dining hall—completed during 1987 renovations of quad, replacing jcr house s cafeteria—is intimate , bright space. located beneath moors hall (pforzheimer house) terrace, three-tiered room painted white, floors carpeted; long wall facing quad entirely glass, bathed in natural light throughout day. servery likewise bright , airy, knotty pine walls , earthenware tile floors. 1 of renovated house serveries, completed in 2002.

more serving merely house cafeteria, dining hall center of house activity. aside being site of hours-long, social dinners, each evening dining hall fills students work on problem sets , projects various subjects.

stein club

cabot house stein club junior common room beer-appreciation society every member of junior common room (that is, house residents) automatically belongs. every other thursday evening throughout school year, stein club meets in 1 of cabot s 6 living rooms, in briggs or barnard hall, or in dining hall. @ each meeting, students socialize on various types of ale, purchased house committee. each year, ceramic steins ordered bear house insignia , name of owner. stein club attendance high in cabot; tutors , faculty dean known attend beer , fraternization.

cabot café

cabot café coffee shop located in cabot house @ harvard university. house coffee shop student run , operated. café offers coffee, espresso drinks, hot chocolate, tea, chai, cookies, , more. cabot café serves venue student performers , other on-campus events. since opening in september 2011, cabot café has become social space on campus, students trekking other houses hang out friends or study.

cabot house theater company

the cabot house theater company manages cabot theater. theater traces roots cabot experimental theater in 1960s.

intramural sports

cabot fields strong intramural sports squad each year. cabot holds record consecutive straus cups (awarded house intramural points accrued during school year) 7 wins between 1994 , 2001.

spring formal

there annual cabot house spring formal. known cotillion, black-tie event—white-tie encouraged. in years past, house committee took advantage of cambridge queen s head hold first ever cabot prom, complete elected prom court, announced @ dutch auction.

dutch auction

to raise money student events, house committee holds dutch auction each spring. poster prominently placed in house dining room students can offer service or object auctioned. in past years, students have offered write theme songs individual house members, clean rooms, go on date, , on; cabot alum rivers cuomo donated autographed copy of weezer s new album during senior year.

the auctioneer dutch auction prominent member of house or house committee. dutch auctions known being wild events, heated bidding wars , drunken revelry. dutch auction known annual lambing.

lambing

the lambing unusual house tradition takes place each year @ dutch auction. highest bidder lambing gets name house member (a junior) lambed @ following year s auction. student lambed ceremonially covered in oil, flour, , pieces of lamb, in front of cheering crowd in house junior common room. student not eaten or cooked—merely seasoned deliciously. although actual lamb no longer used @ lambing, tradition carried on in spirit pies.

festivus

a newly adopted tradition popularized seinfeld, festivus popular dinner during month of december featuring cuisine multitude of cultures around globe.