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When asked what their time at the GSD was like, the answer inevitably boils down to one word: tough. "It was angst-ridden. It wasn't fun, but that's not why I was supposed to be there," says Janet Josselyn (MAR '84). "Part of the problem is that you come out overtrained," says Eugene Lew (MAR '61). But now that Lew has his own practice, he believes that "it's no question that the training paid...
...course there is the Harvard name. "It definitely is a foot in the door," says Josselyn, who is working in a local office. Lew, on the other hand, believes that only "in the last ten to 15 years the Harvard and mystique has made a difference." Peter C. Krause and Benjamin R. Miller contributed to the writing and reporting of this article...
...John Josselyn wrote of the Massachusetts settlements: "The Diseases that the English are afflicted with, are the same that they have in England, with some proper to New-England, griping of the belly (accompanied with Feaver and Ague) which turns to the bloudy-flux, a common disease in the Countrey, which together with the small pox hath carried away abundance of their children." This same Josselyn attributed to the Indians "the great pox" (syphilis), consumption of the lungs, the King's Evil (scrofula) and falling sickness-all of which happened to be imports from the Old World...
Kenneth L. Josselyn '77, vice-chairman of the Mather House committee, asked the deans to move 30 students out of Mather as an "arbitrary measure to correct the problem this year...
...added that "in the long run" corrections should be made in the system used to determine how many students are assigned to each House. That system "is unfair to Mather" because it does not take into account architectural differences between Mather and other Houses, Josselyn said...