Word: mastering
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Georgi, who is also master of Leverett House, said increasing a student's class choices also increases the need for good advising so that the College can ensure students are taking appropriate courses...
Kiely's only stipulation of the deal, Del Deo recalls, was that the young artist keep the master apprised of his progress. And over the five years that Del Deo would utilize the space and become closer to the Kiely family--first as a House resident and then as a House tutor--he would draw up a letter to Kiely with details of the week's work and leave it on Kiely's desk...
That Adams House had a reputation for anything, however, was news to the young Leverett House Senior Tutor Kiely, who was approached in 1973 by then Harvard President Derek C. Bok and asked to consider the post of Adams master...
...once a distinguished scholar in literature (he's published several books and is a regular contributor for The New York Times Book Review), Kiely is also the master who dressed up as a nun at drag night to sing "How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?" from The Sound of Music. On one hand, he is half of the debonair couple that always makes a splash at House waltzes and swings, and on the other is an enthusiastic participant in the festivities of St. Patrick's Day, serving Black and Tans and step dancing...
...would feel it would be exaggerating to take too much credit," Kiely says. "Any master who thinks he has the ability to construct pyramids of legacy...