Word: senioritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHEN the House system began almost all senior associates were tutoring a few students, and the Senior Faculty were easily integrated into House social life. Dean Glimp maintains that most are still anxious for contact with undergraduates, but find dining hall society intimidating--since they often know none of the students...
Beyond the social atmosphere are a series of purely logistical problems that keep the Senior Faculty away from the Houses. "Only four kinds of professors live in Cambridge," the axiom runs, "the young, the rich, the childless, and the emeritus." Most of the rest live in Belmont where the schools are better and housing is easier to find. It is difficult to lure these men back to Cambridge for House activities at night...
...retention of Faculty) has been examining Faculty residential patterns very closely and could recommend some long-range solution like University subsidized housing in Cambridge. In the mean-time, Richard T. Gill, Master of Leverett, has been setting off a chunk of the dining room each Monday noon for Senior Faculty and students to mingle at every opportunity and has been pressing both groups to show...
...alternative to this informal pressure seems to be House courses. Everyone agrees they are a nifty mechanism for drawing Faculty down to the House, but House courses are in trouble educationally right now. Some of the Senior Faculty members who originally backed the idea are now questioning whether the experiment really works. With House courses under review, the Dunlop Committee still deliberating, and Gill's scheme still just a small experiment, there will be pressure on Ford's new committee to come up with some original ways of pulling Senior Faculty back to the Houses...
...small group of Senior Faculty--maybe 50--end up writing a huge proportion of the grad school and fellowship recommendations, and some of Harvard's most popular professors complain privately of the amount of their time this process consumes. Finley worries that the prospect of writing so many letters scares some Faculty members away from accepting Masterships. Neglecting this unpleasant chore would be tempting, Gill says, except that the letters "happen to be terribly important. In an impersonal world, you can do a lot," Finley says, and Harvard has a record to prove...