Eliot House

The current Masters of Eliot House are Professor Lino Pertile and his wife Anna Bensted .

Famous former residents of the house include Leonard Bernstein , Peter Benchley , Benazir Bhutto , Ben Bradlee , Archibald Cox , John Harbison , Ted Kaczynski , William Kristol , Richard Leacock , Joseph Lelyveld , Jack Lemmon , Thomas Oliphant , George Plimpton , and Jay Rockefeller .

Before Harvard opted to use a lottery system to assign residences to upperclassmen, Eliot was known as a 'prep' house, providing accommodation the university's social elite. Vestiges of this remain in traditions like the spring formal, the Eliot Fête, and the house remains especially well-endowed, although Harvard no longer permits donors to fund individual houses.

MOVIE APPEARANCE

Eliot's prominent bell tower is featured in two screen shots in the box office movie Old School starring Will Ferrell , Vince Vaughn , and Luke Wilson , as well as the movies Legally Blonde starring Reese Witherspoon and class="copylinks">Luke Wilson , And [[The Firm starring Tom Cruise .

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