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...agenda. The path mapped out by the student-faculty committee’s report, which would expand the peer advising system’s academic counseling role, was the “direction [the prefect leadership] wanted to see itself go,” says Lindsay C. Page, the proctor-adviser to the prefects. The program’s student leaders understood that they “would lose some of their autonomy,” Page adds.Two years ago, the Prefect Program board submitted a proposal asking for more training on academic advising, says board member Haining Gouinlock...
...says a lot about his character and passion for undergraduate education. One anecdote, however, speaks louder than all of my visits to Mass. Hall. In late October, I fell sick on a week when I had several papers due. Not wanting to bother Larry, I went to my proctor, who suggested I ask my freshmen dean for extensions on my papers, but informed me that I had to get Larry’s approval to do so. I gingerly called his office and talked to his secretary, who said he was very busy that day but that she would...
...English,” a course on the history and literature of Ireland, Applied Math 110, and Visual and Environmental Studies 40, a studio class in design. A LIFE-LONG DEVOTIONUpon her graduation from the College, Worth went to work for the Harvard Admissions Office and became a freshman proctor.“I knew I wouldn’t have been admitted to Harvard had it not been for the persistence of my admissions officer, and I wanted to give back to the institution that had given me so much,” she explains.After receiving her masters...
...following year, approximately 200 undergrads moved to the apartment buildings and 17 freshmen to the house in the University’s largest attempt to relieve serious overcrowding in the Houses and Yard. Irving S. K. Chin, then a second-year at Harvard Law School, was a popular proctor in the new buildings, which came to be known as the Union dorms. Chin said the freshmen had “adjusted pretty well,” and he praised the dorm for being “as close to a fraternity type of arrangement...
...phone, in no way revealing her 71 years, Whitman has always maintained a realistic mentality. “I just went ahead and did my thing, and never went in for the blue suits and little bowties,” says the previous board member of GM, Unocal, and Proctor & Gamble. Whether it was women at parties or a mother-in-law who was “genuinely disturbed” by a daughter-in-law with two kids and a job, “it’s one thing to look back and say ‘didn?...