Eliot House

• Name — Eliot House • Type — Residential House • University — Harvard University • Colours — Blue, Red, White • Named For — Charles William Eliot • Established — 1930 • Faculty Deans — David Elmer and Bonnie Talbert • Dean — Andrea Wright • Undergraduates — 450 • Called — Eliotites • Location — 101 Dunster Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. • Sister College — Jonathan Edwards College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge • Website — https: eliot.harvard.edu/ • Shield Size — 86

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.

• Illustration — Eliot House cupola from JFK Park Eliot's prominent cupola 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.

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