Word: holt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Complaints from the parents are noted down on the chart and new sitters are sent out to try their hand with the babies. Several mothers have called to report that a sitter scared their children, and Holt shifted the over brutal students to families with hardier babies...
...Holt is always involved in delicate medication between families and sitters. One time parents walked in on a sitter an hour before the expected time to find him sitting in the living room with his shoes off. The parents objected. Holt firmly upheld the right of all students to take their shoes off whenever they wished...
...Holt's crew is employed to watch the children of married students. Hence they are given rock bottom wages. Holt is faced with the delicate problem of keeping two groups of students happy. He feels the married ones would feel the pinch too much if they were forced to pay the unmarried ones any more...
...Holt studies the region high above the earth, where the sky is always black and the temperature may be 1000 degrees. By working in a Jefferson Hall laboratory, he is learning the processes which might explain the nightly disappearance of the electron cloud...
...Holt heads one of the dozen or so research projects that the Department of Physics and the Department of Engineering Sciences are now working on. With the help of graduate assistants, he is trying to solve this cosmic whodunit and thus win another battle in Harvard's war against the unknown...