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Word: prefect (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FORMER PROFESSOR of mine who specializes in English labor history (read: likes to talk about "the working class") raised his eyebrows last spring when I told him I was a prefect. In English boarding schools, he told me, prefects are older kids with the permission to whip the hell out of the younger kids...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: The Prefect Crime | 9/17/1991 | See Source »

...Plate is an inauspicious-looking platter that rests in semi-obscurity outside the Union reading room. One wouldn't think that a hunt for this plate would cook the veins of a junior prefect...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: The Prefect Crime | 9/17/1991 | See Source »

...result, Moses immediately began creating programs designed to foster closer ties between upperclass and first-year students. He initiated the Prefect Program, which links first-year entryways to two upperclass students. In addition, Moses instituted the First-Year Outdoor Program (FOP), prompted by an Outward Bound course he took before becoming dean...

Author: By Michele F. Forman, | Title: Last Year for a First-Year Dean | 4/9/1991 | See Source »

...prefect in Canaday A, Rhew still hasn't abandoned his talent for planning first-year activities...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: A New Leader Brings His Own Style and a 'Breath Of Fresh Air' | 2/21/1991 | See Source »

Huang said his agenda for the upcoming weekend mainly involves "working and eating a lot." But not everyone who stays at Harvard goes through Thanksgiving in the doldrums, he said. Last year, Huang said that he visited two of the first-years in his prefect group expecting to find them in a funk...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: Nothing Like Home | 11/21/1990 | See Source »

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