Word: allston
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Benjamin W. Labaree, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Winthrop House, in explaining the sharp cut-back in House seminars, maintained that "there just is not enough demand for them." He stated that people just couldn't seem to find time for the seminars. In addition, those that do start out in a seminar often leave when they find that some reading is required to discuss the topic intelligently. Labaree also claimed that since the Faculty vote instituting non-Honors tutorial last spring seminars are no longer relevant to their original purpose...
Some opinion in favor of House seminars was expressed by Paul E. Sigmund, Jr. Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Quincy Mouse. Sigmund held that the seminar program had been quite successful and remarked that Quincy House was offering one more seminar than it did last fall. He agreed that "inviting prominent guests is a good idea," and mentioned that Quincy had almost a dozen House guests last year...
...long career as a Harvard administrator, Wilbur J. Bender left his remark on other areas besides admissions. It was he who developed the system Allston Burr Senior Tutors, and he who promoted House tutorial...
...West Germany election and the politics of Pakistan and Ceylon will be the topics of the International Seminar open forum Wednesday night at 8 p.m., in Allston Burr Hall...
Immanuel C. Y. Hsu, associate professor of History at the University of California at Santa Barbara, will lecture at 4 p.m. in the air-conditioned Allston Burr Lecture Hall B. He will talk on "Sino-Soviet Ideological Vicissitudes," the innovations in Red Chinese ideology and the more recent disputes between Russia and Red China...