Word: masters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard enough to get people who are willing to be House masters, especially when the people living in your House don't want to be there. But when Rulan and Theodore Pian resigned their position as co-Masters of South House so they could pursue their respective careers, the University had to find someone to fill this less-than-desirable position. The man chosen to try to cure So Ho's ills was Dr. Warren E.C. Wacker, director of University Health Services and sometime Master of Kirkland House...
...emerged into the spotlight as the likely choice to become that school's 19th president in December, after Henry Rosovsky, Harvard's dean of the Faculty, apparently rejected an offer from the Yale Corporation to assume the post. Well-liked by students, Giamatti served a two-year stint as master of Ezra Stiles College, one of Yale's 12 undergraduate residential colleges. He established his reputation as something of an iconoclast by refusing to allow his portrait to hang in the college's dining hall, alongside those of previous masters. Undergraduates instead hung a moose head there, where it remains...
Cheever's novels and short stories, while statements of traditional morality, explore universal themes within the setting of latter-day America. A master of satire, Cheever most often studies the effects of modern pressures on the contemporary morality of the suburban middle-class, yet he never loses a sense of warmth and compassion toward his subjects. He sharpened his ear for dialogue in years of short-story writing for The New Yorker, among other publications, and has since graduated to novels, including The Wapshot Chronical and last year's impressive best-seller, Falconer...
...Hutchisons initiated the construction of a guest suite, the Owen room and many improvements in the senior common room, Louise Schraa, an assistant to the master, said yesterday...
Dean Fox said yesterday the search for new Winthrop House master(s) will begin next fall...