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...Parisians now. Ever since Charles W. Eliot??s teutonic reforms, which inaugurated the modern research university as we know it, student-faculty space has expanded dramatically. Few tutors were appointed after 1878 and none between 1904 and 1914; this while professors were being hired en masse. When tutors began to be hired again, their definition had changed; no longer were they teachers who also interacted with students; now they were graduate students, with no claim to specialized knowledge and with no claim to guide a student as to how he might live...
...want to live for the next three years, alienating other friends by exclusion. The process can range from easy and fun to painful and dramatic, but it’ll culminate in the River Run—shots taken at all the river houses to ensure being sent to Eliot??and an anxious morning with your new blockmates...
...Dunster House tower is also in need of renovations, but McNeil said that because Eliot??s tower is the “worst case,” its construction was scheduled first. Dunster House’s tower will be restored in two years, and restoration of Lowell House’s bell tower is also “on the books,” he added...
...Gomes looks to University President Charles William Eliot??s 1869 inaugural address to describe the essence of the Overseers’ place at the University...
...Gomes, however, says that he believes that the Overseers have gradually strayed from Eliot??s model, ceding much of their designated power to the Corporation and the central administration, which grew from one vice president to four under President Derek C. Bok in the 1970s...