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...Monday morning, according to Stephen W. Homer '62, manager of the term bill office. Harvard printed out its final list of delinquent students and began the drudge work of "red dotting" registration packages...
...Typically 10 to 12 percent aren't clear on registration day, but often those people are coming through the door with a check in their hand," Homer explains. "By the end of the day there are usually no more than 200 who haven't made their payment...
Because checks have come into Harvard Trust all week, Homer says a large part of the office's work has been "de-dotting people who are financially clear after Monday...
...take on any extra help to deal with the flood of cash. Harvard Trust does the time-consuming work of opening and sorting 12.000 envelopes, and "it's fairly complicated when the money comes over--not the kind of stuff you can use Kelly Girls or Accountemps for." Homer says...
...have been done elsewhere; for example, John Haberle's trompe-l'oeil painting A Bachelor's Drawer, 1890-94, with its laconically joky collection of mementos signifying the past lusts and present debts of a minor artist's life. Yet for every apparent isolate like Homer, there were a dozen Americans beavering away in the teaching studios of Paris, especially those run by Jean-Léon Gérôme, who was Thomas Eakins' teacher, and Thomas Couture, who trained Eastman Johnson...