Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Edie Holloway, the assistant to the master at Eliot, works considerably harder than most computer programs I know to ensure that the needs and interests of Eliot residents are met most equitably in their rooming assignments. Edie spends her summer doing what a computer program attempts to do in a few minutes--match diverse groups of men and women to a complex labyrinth of rooms and potential suites--only Edie does a much better job. She, I am sure, would probably much prefer to spend the summer lounging in Eliot courtyard, but she sees the rooming assignments as something worth...
Under the old system, in effect until the 1960s, freshmen formed rooming groups and ranked three houses, much as they do today, says A.M. Pappen-heimer '29, former master of Dunster House...
After the selections were sorted, masters interviewed the rooming groups to choose which ones they wanted in their houses. "One could see everyone who wanted to come into a house," says John H. Finley '25, the master of Eliot House during the 1950s and 1960s...
...master's interviews were just one aspect of a master-student relationship and house atmosphere that were much closer in those days, Finley says. "It wasn't the size, it was what one expected of a house," he says...
...considered Brustein's critical work is on a level with that of George Bernard Shaw and Kenneth Tynan. "What makes a critic great is the quality of his thought, and the quality of his style. No one comes close to Brustein in either area. He is a great master of English prose," he said...