Word: swett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reappointment of Shafer Williams '32 and Norris P. Swett '37 to the posts of Associate Graduate Secretary has been confirmed by the Phillips Brooks House Committee headed by Dean Sperry, it was announced on Saturday...
...work of this post is of an experimental nature, and although no accurate estimate of results obtained to date is possible at this time, the Committee feels that the first 6 months of Swett's and Williams' work justifies their reappointment...
Appointed last fall to serve as "missing links" between the Dean's Office and Hygiene Department and students, Williams and his associate, Norris P. Swett '37, have been working during the fall in an attempt to adjust bewildered students to their environment or vice versa...
...example of the unnecessary trepidation students feel about approaching higher-ups when in scholastic difficulties, Swett cited the case of a Freshman who was completely at sea in Biology several years ago. In desperation he button-holed the head of the department in the street, and demanded an explanation of a certain phase of the course. The professor took the student up to the laboratory and spent an hour and a half straightening...
...advise that practice as a steady diet," Swett cautioned, "but it shows how that traditional Harvard indifference isn't so strong as is commonly believed...