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...Mackay-Smith, a veteran of the Yard, is used to irate parents, among the many traditions of the first year at Harvard College. Six years as a proctor, a term as senior advisor and a stint as assistant dean of first-years have helped make this last transition easier...
...months of frenzied preparation came to an end this weekend, and Mackay-Smith said last week that this year's Orientation Week should be much the same as last, with some occasional new twists...
...senior advisors from across the Yard and Union dorms will make a special effort to emphasize their own smaller community of first-years, Mackay-Smith said. For example, the traditional march of the entire class to the Radcliffe Quad for a picnic will be replaced with smaller picnics within the first-year groups...
...most part, the acting dean says that Harvard will try its best to introduce the students to their new school in a straightforward manner. "A visiting committee last year that looked at our freshman year said we were coddling," Mackay-Smith said. "I take issue with their terminology...
...Sometimes the freshmen do feel as though they're being talked down to, but then we try to fix that and do it differently," Mackay-Smith added...