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Yesterday, Emerson and Cash met again when the musician came to the Kirkland Senior Common Room as the guest speaker of a discussion that was part of the “Conversations with Kirkland” series...
Ashwin Kaja ’07, a Kirkland tutor who worked with Emerson to bring Cash to Harvard, said that because Harvard hosts many political speakers, he tries to bring in people from “other walks of life...
...extensive involvement in faculty life has introduced the couple to other Masters, including Kirkland House Masters and fellow French professors Tom C. and Verena A. Conley, Leverett Masters Howard M. Georgi ’68 and Ann B. Georgi, and Lowell Masters Diana L. Eck and Dorothy A. Austin...
...later regret. Houses often pick resident tutors from the non-resident pool because the masters and House staff are already familiar with them, but Sebastián says nobody told him that at first. Having a child also hurt his chances, he says, and particularly at Kirkland, which hasn’t been deleaded and so cannot house children five or younger. Since he became a tutor, other student parents have started asking Sebastián for advice on their applications. “I tell them, ‘Disappear your children. Then you might have a shot...
Might. Because, children aside, the demand for tutor positions is so great that landing the job is more improbable than being admitted to Harvard in the first place. This year, Kirkland House has openings for two people; 316 applied...