While defending Adams residents' freedom of expression, they were regularly chastised by students and Faculty alike for a permissive attitude toward sex, drugs and nonconformity.
At times, the Kielys were forced to impose limits--like when, in the early 1990s, they closed the Adams House pool after a particularly outrageous party, described by some as bacchanalian.
But those incidents proved the exception rather than the rule.
And their students loved them for it.
Last night, three male Adams residents showed up to the reception in drag--dresses, lipstick, fishnet stockings and heels.
It was, they said, in honor of their former Masters.
"He's just a very loving man," said R. David Smith '00, an Adams House resident.
When Smith was struggling with his sexuality early in his Harvard career, he said he said he found a sympathetic ear in Robert Kiely.
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