Word: prefect
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well, that's what I felt about participating in Harvard's prefect program. Although I made friends with some freshmen I probably would not have met in the course of my normal routine, I got very little out of being a prefect, and I don't think my freshmen got much out of it, either...
...Prefects, usually assigned to a freshman entryway, share their experience and knowledge of Harvard with their Yardlings. "Prefects help freshmen in acclimating to Harvard," prefect Joel A. Getz '86 said...
After a trial period last spring, the prefect program was fully implemented for the first time this year. The program's high visibility, increased by the media attention it has received, may be partially responsible for the large number of applicants to the peer advisory job for next year, Offutt said...
...disclosure that two prefects had become romantically involved with freshmen under their charge focused campus attention on the program in November. As a result of the incidents, one prefect resigned and the other was reassigned...
Freshman proctors interviewed expressed enthusiasm for the prefect program, and added that the romantic entanglements of the fall had not reduced their support for the program...