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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...text of the boy's letter to me. Explains that she has given the letter to the dean of the summer school. It has been arranged that she will spend the night at one of the assistant dean's residences with a girlfriend. She is at the girlfriend's dorm and will remain there until it is convenient for the assistant dean to take her to her residence. I'm told that the boy will be spoken to that evening by another dean of the school. Later on that evening, my daughter calls to confirm that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Excerpts From a Mother's Chronology | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

...steps were being taken in my daughter's behalf regarding the boy. Dean Hewitt was very evasive and uncooperative. She couldn't tell me anything except that the boy would see the psychiatrist. Everything else was confidential. No help was offered to my daughter for her move to another dorm. She and her two friends made the move. She was moved to another freshman dorm, a single room, without a telephone. The boy's key could open the outside door of that building as well. Without any information about the boy or his whereabouts, we had to assume that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Excerpts From a Mother's Chronology | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

Problems in the dormitory can be harder to defuse. Classes usually finish after a semester; dorm life continues throughout the year. The hierarchy of authority in the dorms begins with a proctor or resident tutor. These people, thankfully, are not your parents. They all have a standard set of rules to enforce as they see fit; it is up to you to comply...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Stand Behind the White Line | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

...Enjoy the heat while you have it, for Boston winters freeze the Charles all the way down. If your dorm does not have air-conditioning, it is probably because no one wants it on January...

Author: By Eddie Scannell, | Title: My Life at Harvard (Summer School) | 8/2/1994 | See Source »

...live in a non-smoking dorm, it means that no one is allowed to smoke. Right...

Author: By Eddie Scannell, | Title: My Life at Harvard (Summer School) | 8/2/1994 | See Source »

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