Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Winthrop House the Senior Tutor heard reports that the weekly Thursdayfest was going too well, that Harvard students had dropped their books for an entire evening and were dancing at the ungodly hour...
...deans could have set the limit at a more reasonable number like 2.3, the national average of children per family. (The .3 would be a party with warm beer and no music). As part of the new leaf, the deans invested the Senior Tutors with additional powers and a new title, Allston Burr Senior Tutor and Dean Wharmer Party-Buster, in honor of the famous dean who brought Faber College's Delta House under control...
...Quincy Senior Tutor was quickest to set up a network of paid informants who let her know whenever a party was becoming too fun. One night this fall, one sophomore knocked on the Senior Tutor's door...
...action was quick. The Senior Tutor crushed the party in its infancy (1 p.m.). Those who resisted were Ad Boarded and made to parse Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and get up early enough for breakfast four days...
...return to the original question: what have I learned? My senior tutor, if I knew his name, would probably wish for me to say that I learned a great deal about Mathematics, Systematics, German, Fine Arts, Sanskrit, Archaeology, Biology, and Pottery, during my three and a half years at fair Harvard. But somehow, what little book learning I have acquired here seem pale and gaunt compared to the true wisdom I have come to call my own. Stand ever firm, O Stacks of Widener; but not down thy revered stacks shall I tread...