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...toads down to six, and then to one, and then zero," says Grant. A few mating pairs hung around, but after two days, they too left. "It was so dramatic, I was trying to think of reasons why they might have gone," she says. "I was at a loss. Did somebody come and disturb them? Did somebody run through with a tractor? But that didn't seem right. Toads get run over by cars all the time, and that doesn't make them run away...
Tempering the loss of these six Masters—hailing from Cabot, Eliot, and Mather Houses—is the shared knowledge retained by the remaining leaders, 10 of whom will have served for at least 10 years when the next academic year begins...
...Sandra and Leigh do have a lot of accumulated institutional knowledge, and she uses that to very good means in our meetings and the policies that we follow. So it’s going to be a loss to see her go,” said Quincy House Master Lee Gehrke. “At the same time, there are other Masters who have significant experience...
Georgi and Lowell House Master Diana L. Eck—who, along with their partners, will lead the remaining cadre in terms of years of experience—said that while the looming departures may not have a tangible effect on the group, the loss of the outgoing House Masters’ experiences will have an impact...
...We’ll all have to work harder to make up for her loss,” Georgi said...