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...distinction between the two titles is primarily in terms of organization: unlike the assistant to the Masters, the House administrator directly receives reports from people in the office of the senior tutor and the House Master. In most respects, though, the two posts have similar responsibilities...
Because this is the tail end of my junior year, and because I am concentrating in History and Literature, where theses are de rigeur, my tutor and I have been discussing potential thesis topics. Although many of my classmates have submitted thesis-research grant applications in which they use the word “agency” a lot, I have only gotten as far as free-associating about nineteenth-century machine breakers...
...know, the Luddites used to pound down mill doors with this giant hammer they called ‘Enoch,’” I told my tutor. “They named it after one of the guys who built power looms, and as they smashed they’d chant, ‘Enoch made it!/ Enoch will break it’ in time with the hammers. I think that’s pretty lyrical, don’t you? Maybe I could write about rioters’ chants: history and literature. And sledgehammers...
...with my tutor, thinking about the Luddites and about what I would smash, were I hefting an outsized sledgehammer named Enoch, the thesis process began to seem as ominous and inescapable as adulthood itself. It became the apple from the tree of knowledge that prefigures the expulsion from Paradise. (One of the advantages of a liberal-arts education is that it permits you to self-dramatize extravagantly...
...heaved a dramatic sigh; my tutor looked up from her coffee...