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...Bossert says the “sheer volume of people passing through could be overwhelming, and [there were] times when the sounds of partying—mostly from Winthrop House, as I recall—kept me awake, but for the most part the students were an expected and welcome part of day-to-day life...
Considerably older than Heimert during his years in Lowell House, Bossert adjusted more easily. “Strange though it seemed at first,” he explains, “having two or three hundred people milling about on the first floor eating brownies became normal, even negligible, after the first few months.” The duties of House Masters require constant attention. William Bossert jokes that he used his children as “slave labor for entertainment” at weekly teas. For Greg, helping out at the teas “was hard work, hard...
...Bossert and Heimert also recall being intimidated by students in the Houses. “I didn’t have much meaningful interaction with students, even though we ate in the dining hall almost every night of the week. I do remember that they all looked tremendously sophisticated and mature,” Heimert says. She says it was not until years later, when she enrolled as an undergraduate at Princeton, that it dawned on her that the Harvard students of her youth were perhaps not that advanced. “I realized that I was not remotely sophisticated...
...Bossert says he felt the divide between students and resident children more keenly, recalling “a frustrating sense of superiority [coming] from the masses—more felt during my less-secure high school days—or just plain disregard of us non-students as some sort of incidental infrastructure.” But he soon grew confident in his role as a permanent member of the House community, adopting “an attitude of ‘yeah, but you are in my House’—which is very much...
...Square was the cool place to be anyway, so it was not hard to convince friends to visit,” Bossert says. “And Belmont as a town is very closely connected to the universities in Cambridge, so strange as my life was, there wasn’t as big a culture gap as one might think...