Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a very well rounded set of tutors. Dunster is still known as "The Economics House" as far away as the London School of Economics, with men like Harris, Leoutieff, Mason, and schumpeter attached to the staff...
Basing their choice on an optional meal in its dining hall, on optional conference with members of its staff, the reputation of its food, the pleasantness of its view, and the convenience of its location, Yardlings will make up their minds within the next few weeks to spend the next few years, not in a House of the type President Lowell envisaged, but more in a sort of glorified dormitory. The Houses are dormitories in so far as they furnish shelter and food; they are glorified in so far as they do so resplendently. And they are not Houses...
...education. Tutorial lay at the heart of the plan, and it is the tutorial system's current dehydrated state that has caused the loss of much of the value of the Houses. The method by which students will choose their House reflects this state: in the thirties interviews with staff members of both first and second choices were compulsory, while today they are purely optional. With the Houses themselves failing to advertise their intellectual equipment, and with tutorial in general no longer looming large in every student's plans, it is only natural that this year's choices be made...
Originally chopped into four precincts with a separate staff for each, the Cambridge police were consolidated in 1934 with the erection of the present Station. Now completely modernized and operating on the latest FBI syllabus, the Station takes advantage of its proximity to the University by enlisting local talent in many of its classes. The Police Training Center, for example, has just wound up a course in Inter-Racial Relations with Gordon Allport showing the policemen the sociological ropes. This is probably the first time a Harvard professor has been a visiting lecturer at a police station...
Nestled snugly within the Randolph courtyard is the most colorful Gold Coast tradition, Apthorp House, residence of David M. Little '18, master of Adams and Secretary to the University. The old white frame dwelling imprisoned General Burgoyne and his staff after they were captured at Saratoga in 1777 and later contained a thriving speakeasy during Prohibition