Cabot House is one of twelve undergraduate residential Houses at Harvard University. Cabot House derives from the merger in 1970 of South and East House, which took the name South House (also known as "SoHo"), until the name was changed and the House reincorporated in 1984 to honor Harvard benefactors Thomas Cabot and Virginia Cabot. The house is composed of six buildings surrounding Radcliffe Quadrangle; in order of construction, they are Bertram Hall (1901), Eliot Hall (1906), Whitman Hall (1911), Barnard Hall (1912), Briggs Hall (1923), and Cabot Hall (1937). All six of these structures were originally women-only Radcliffe College dormitories until they were integrated in 1970. Along with Currier House and Pforzheimer House, Cabot is part of the Quad.
The current Masters of Cabot House are Rakesh Khurana and his wife Stephanie Khurana. Prior Masters include then-Radcliffe President Mary Bunting and New Republic publisher Martin Peretz.
Famous alumni include Stockard Channing, Lindsay Crouse, Benazir Bhutto, Rivers Cuomo, Greg Daniels, Ellen Goodman, Soledad O'Brien, Bonnie Raitt, Mira Sorvino, founder of Sam Adams Brewery Jim Koch, former Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healy and Edward Zwick. In 1900, Helen Keller attended South House before it was renamed Cabot House.
Read more about Cabot House: Community and Traditions, Masters, Dean, Tutors, and Staff, Constituent Halls
Famous quotes containing the words cabot and/or house:
“That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable shore of Labrador gave the English no just title to New England, or to the United States generally, any more than to Patagonia.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The shifting islands! who would not be willing that his house should be undermined by such a foe! The inhabitant of an island can tell what currents formed the land which he cultivates; and his earth is still being created or destroyed. There before his door, perchance, still empties the stream which brought down the material of his farm ages before, and is still bringing it down or washing it away,—the graceful, gentle robber!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)