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...University takes obvious risks in appointing a visitor from the "real world" as master of a House or College. The mastership is traditionally a link between faculty and students; a non-academic may merely widen the gap. His appointment could antagonize the faculty and make it more difficult to find masters in the future by convincing them that the university can always find acceptable men in the ranks of non-educators. Men of unique and outstanding ability like Hersey will not usually be willing to take on the responsibilities of running a dormitory. And the university might always pick...
Elliott Perkins '23, stepped up from the Mastership of Lowell House last night into Harvard legend...
...pageantry usually experienced only at Commencement, President Pusey transferred the Lowell tippit, a Master's traditional sash of authority, from Perkins' shoulder to that of his successor, Zeph Stewart, professor of Greek and Latin. With this gesture, the 23 years of the Perkinsian Age ended and Lowell's third Mastership began...
...specifically, whether he would abandon what the CRIMSON called, two days before his appointment, "Lowell's traditional style of life, modeled on life at Oxbridge." In twenty-three years in the House, Perk has decisively laid such doubts to rest. And as he retires this year from the Mastership, he leaves a House whose own traditions, and whose sense of tradition, he has kept burning brightly--like the flame of the Yule log and the light of the High Table candles--against the unseasonable winds of change...
Gill will take over the Leverett Mastership in the beginning of next summer. In part, he hopes to administer the House on the same principle which he worked from during the past two or three years--that Harvard students today are intelligent and ought to make their own decisions. In his words, "The House should give a feeling of support, rather than impose a pattern, on ventures taken up by the undergraduates." He considers the most important benefit the House system can offer a student to be the contact with other undergraduates, and he sees the dining hall conversation, perhaps...