Word: tilman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rivers; time and time again he found himself with no place to go, forced to hunt for food or haunted by the spectre of another desperate street situation. After leaving New Haven in 1975, he came to Cambridge where he eventually met Martin Kilson, professor of Government, and Judith Tilman '78, two people who made a significant difference in his life. In 1976, after a time of "serious hustling" with the help of Kilson. Rivers enrolled as a visiting undergraduate at Harvard. He consistently worked for 50 hours a week to support himself while taking two classes, and, for more...
...different backgrounds as well as whites here "was a real culture shock," he says. In addition, "I didn't have the apparatus to read the professional cues." Quite simply, he did not know the unwritten rules of behavior which so many students are weaned on, he says, adding that Tilman was instrumental in helping him adjust...