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...Behind him, five first-year students are hunched over their benches with magnifying monocles screwed into their eyes. Antique clocks and watches in varying states of disassembly lie about, their components carefully stored in multirecessed trays. "The idea here is restoring a clock or watch to its original state," Lindwerlin explains, "which means they're tackling the problem of missing components." His students are trained to research where a timepiece was made and what sort of tools were used there at that time. They use computer-assisted design programs to reconceptualize missing parts and a separate workshop with lathes...
...change in calendar only makes upperclass registration three days earlier than it would be under the traditional calendar—this year it will be held Sept. 11 instead of on Sept. 14—the Houses will open a full week earlier than normal, just like the first-year dorms...
Associate Dean of the College Thomas A. Dingman ’67 said the College decided to open the Houses a week early because many upperclass students need to return for first-year registration, particularly to table at the first-year activities fair held the morning of registration. He said that the College decided just providing temporary housing to these students would have created too much of a logistical hassle...
Before the end of last academic year Dingman wrote a letter for Houses and the Freshman Dean’s Office to distribute to students urging them to remain home until the weekend of Sept. 7 unless they needed to assist at first-year registration...
...There are many colleges and universities at which first-year orientation begins during the third week of August, so Harvard students will not be alone in planning for a pre-Labor Day move-in,” wrote Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley Nathans in an e-mail message...