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For the first time, no first-year students had to live in the distant Radcliffe Quad. The Harvard Union began serving meals on the weekends. And in that same year, 1977, Henry C. Moses took over as dean of first-year students.
Now, after a decade of overseeing the centralization of Harvard life and the first-year community there, Moses is saying goodbye to 6 Prescott St., the Union and Harvard Yard. In January, Moses announced that he will step down at the end of the current academic year to become headmaster...
By all accounts, the job Moses has occupied for the past 14 years has been a demanding one. The dean roughly equates his post to being a master of a house with 1600 residents. He has supervised the advising system, monitored the quality of student life and installed new programs...
"My job is the care and feeding of the freshman class," Moses says. "It's getting people from September to May, from high school into the house system and into a concentration, convincing them that their education is in their hands."
But if Moses's job is a big one, it's largely because he's made it that way, by vastly expanding the responsibilities that go along with his position. When he took over his job in 1977, he pledged in an interview with The Crimson that, unlike his predecessor...