Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau would have loved it. A 48-hour, 120-man celebration of those most basic, elemental, primordial urges in man that civilization tries to contain or closet: physical violence, alimental satiation, orgiastic intoxication and boisterous, lustful fellowship...
...member is anyone who considers himself a member. There are no required dues, and lest riches corrupt the fellowship, no one is allowed to contribute more than $300 a year. Instead of using professional therapists, the members help each other; one alcoholic is always on call to come to the aid of another. The treatment is nothing more sophisticated than the gathering together of a dozen or more other alcoholics who share their drinking histories and admit to themselves and each other that they are powerless to control their drinking. Members attend meetings as often as they feel the need...
...when the fundraisers start after my class in earnest in a few years, for the sake of my Alma Mater I hope they have the good sense to stress that part of the Harvard experience, and not some idiotic pieties about Junior Common Room fellowship or lectures I skipped in some supposedly hallowed course...
Currently working on his Ph.D. dissertation in Near Eastern Languages at Harvard, Healy will replace Katherine A. Hutchins as full-time director of fellowship counselling this summer...
...teaching fellowship is, of course, something more than the essential service it provides the University, for it offers the graduate student experiences and opportunities many TFs feel to be the most productive and memorable part of their lives at Harvard. The ability to teach and the possibility of gaining some close contacts with others in the general Harvard community are both viewed by graduate students as a welcome relief after the first two years as isolated students attempting to gain a foothold on the bottom rung of the academic hierarchy...