Word: leverett
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...former Economics 1 professor who led Leverett for 16 years as senior tutor and then master, Gill has written books with Professors Nathan Glazer and Stephan Thernstrom, has sung with all Three Tenors and Beverly Sills, earned The Atlantic Monthly's short story prize and won a few boxing matches along the way. This all began not long after he entered Harvard College...
...after an eight-year stint as senior tutor, Gill and his wife Elizabeth were moving into the master's residence at Leverett House...
Gill says one of his Leverett students had interned for President Lyndon B. Johnson, and there was a good chance LBJ would agree to speak at the House senior dinner. ("Not even [famed Eliot House Master] John [H.] Finley ['25] could've topped that," Gill laughs...
...honesty, I have never felt much of a sense of community in Leverett House. Sure, I'll hype up the dining hall to play along with some silly rivalry every once in a while, but when you get down to it, I really couldn't care less about which dorm I was assigned to. In fact, I haven't really found "community" anywhere at Harvard. For me, a significant part of this "alienation" was a result of the fact that it was possible for me to wander about the Yard one balmy fall evening in the beginning of my first...
Carine M. Williams '00 is an Afro-American studies and social anthropology concentrator in Leverett House. This is her final column of the semester...