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Cabot will be the acting senior tutor of Winthrop House while the present senior tutor, Standish Meacham Jr., spends a year in England, where he will be working on a biography of Bishop Samuel Wilberforce...
...record of Jamestown has all the theatrical trappings of an achievement to be honored in a national holiday. Like the Pilgrims, the Virginia colonists barely survived their first years in the New World. Like the Pilgrims, they persevered. Against Miles Standish's bungled courtship of Priscilla Alden, the Jamestown legend can put the capture of John Smith by Powhatan and his rescue by Pocahontas. The counterpart of the Pilgrim's harvest feast in Virginia was the arrival of a relief expedition on June...
...Standish Meacham, Jr., Winthrop House senior tutor, explained, "If a student's doing poorly, I want to find what's wrong, and PRL is meaningless for that." Grinning, he added, "But I do look at it now and then just to see if a student is above or below what they thought...
...Standish Meacham, Jr., an English historian and author of "Henry Thornton of Clapham, 1760-1815." He has been an instructor since 1961 and Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Winthrop House since 1962. He holds the A.B. (1954) from Yale and the Ph.D. (1961) from Harvard...
...construction in the years 1912-1914. Widener Library ways built and provided a place for the bulk of the university's collection, dispensing with the scattered departmental libraries that had existed previously. Coolidge, Gibbs and Cruft Libraries were built to house the Physics and Chemistry Departments. Gore and Standish halls--now part of Winthrop House--sprung up along the river housing freshmen. The MTA was completed in 1912 and was welcomed by undergrads because it made travel to Boston easier. The Larz Anderson Bridge, completed in 1913, made it much easier to get to football games...