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That’s where the prefect system comes in. The two or three upperclassmen who plan social events for each proctor group are, for some first-years, their only glimpse into life past the Yard. As Nathans puts it, “Peer advisers are important supports to first-year students in many respects. They can introduce them to some of the routines of undergraduate life; they can offer important wisdom about time management and about balancing extracurriculars and academic work; they can provide a sounding board for some of the concerns and doubts that first-year students experience...
Before he came to Harvard in the fall of 1997, Lewis attended the Groton School, a prestigious boarding school in Groton, Mass., where he became a popular campus leader. He served as the senior prefect of his class, an office analogous to class president, and volunteered as a youth soccer coach. An avid singer, Lewis was also active in the school’s choir...
...early for football practice. He probably didn’t appreciate the 3 a.m. dance parties I had in order to wake myself up long enough to finish this or that problem set. My roommates and I went to a few games, probably because we wanted to see my prefect, who was the mascot, dance around in an oversized Puritan outfit. At a game against Brown I remember him getting into a testosterone tussle with their mascot. We laughed all the way home: nothing like the physically timid yet emotionally charged pushes and shoves exchanged between the mascots...
...there might be a way to institutionalize social fluidity. For one thing, how ’bout a program that matches up every senior (those jaded unmagical Muggle types) with an entering first-years with similar interests, a sort of one-on-one Prefect program? Aside from the attendant social fluidity, both parties would derive benefit—the first-years from the senior’s experience, and the senior from the first-year’s starry-eyed wonderment. And, if we seniors want to kick-start our own narrative engines, why not pair each...
...Thanks a lot Harvard,” said John E. Nash ’05. “I was really nervous about finally hooking up with a girl but my prefect suggested that I could get plenty of practice at ‘Debauchery...