Word: eliot
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Adam M. Guren ’08, a Crimson associate editorial chair, is an economics concentrator in Eliot House...
...required tutors—for all practical purposes the equivalent of today’s professors—“to be with their pupils almost every hour of the day, and sleep in the same chamber with some of them at night,” wrote Samuel Eliot Morison, Harvard’s pre-eminent historian. In many cases, student and tutor remained life-long friends...
Part of this was simple logistical necessity—as Eliot himself put it in an October 19, 1869 inaugural address, “one hundred and fifty young men cannot be so intimate with each other as fifty used to be.” And as the College expanded in the post-Civil War years, so did its bureaucracy, which formed a wedge between measly students and exalted professors...
Mark A. Adomanis ’07 is a government concentrator in Eliot House. His column appears on alternate Thursdays...
Bernstein epically defended tonality when he was invited to deliver a series of Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, given in 1973, after a year’s residency in Eliot house...