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...very well-liked and he gets very high evaluations," said Kathleen E. Duffin, a preceptor in Expository Writing. "A teacher who is able to make then kind of contact with students would be missed...
State Rep. Dennis J. Duffin said Monday, "This issue is an engraved invitation to young men and women in my district to visit New York." Duffin, who opposes the raise, is one of several legislators from districts that border states with drinking ages at 18 years...
...Before, I felt sort of squashed by Harvard as an entity--it became almost a threat with all the academic pressure," says Kathy Duffin '78. The biochemistry concentrator says, "If everyone around me is worried about grades, it's hard for me not to be, too." Duffin spent her sophomore year in Adams House and last year in an apartment with three graduate students. Now she shares an apartment with a secretary who works...
Other factors besides academic pressure influenced Duffin in her decision to move off campus. She says she "felt a need to get out in the real world," and also wanted to escape the noise, expense and low-quality food endemic to Harvard House life. Duffin calculated that off-campus life would save her about $700 a year, but finds that incidental expenses have reduced that amount...
...sleep through more classes, but that's a matter of self-discipline. You think you'd spend a lot of time cooking and cleaning up afterwards, but I found I'd spend a hour and a half in the dining hall anyway." Like most students who move off campus, Duffin associates with the same people she did while living on campus. She says less frequent mealtime contact makes little difference in the quality of her friendships. "When I would sit with people at meals it was usually in a large group so I wouldn't say much anyway...