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...discarded cigarette likely set off a small fire in the C entryway of Quincy House on Friday evening, causing a flurry of activity on Plympton Street as four fire trucks and a resident tutor worked to extinguish the blaze. According to Cambridge Fire Department Deputy Fire Chief John J. Cotter, firefighters responded to a fire alarm in Quincy at approximately 9 p.m. on Friday, after a fire erupted in garbage and leaves that had collected in a downstairs window well. “It was a small fire in a window well, most likely caused by a discarded cigarette...
...before they arrive at Harvard and giving each freshman entryway a House affiliation. When the 2004 Curricular Review report recommended such a change to Harvard’s housing policy, it presumed that the benefits to advising from pre-assignment would consist of improved freshman access to the House tutor system—a wrong-headed argument if ever there was one. Critics rightly argued that House advisors are stretched thin across this campus and that the added load would fill the tutor system to bursting. But the 2004 report missed the point. By pre-assigning freshmen to Houses, Harvard...
...admitted to a fiction class in the English department. “I’d been trying my darndest,” he says ruefully. When he heard about a non-credit screenwriting workshop in Winthrop House, he tried his hand at that.The seminar, taught by Winthrop tutor Andrew Arthur, proved to be a godsend. Screenwriting provided a path for Smith not to “take [himself] so seriously.”Although Smith has since earned a place in Visiting Lecturer on African and African American Studies and on English and American Literature and Language Jamaica Kincaid?...
...Sound like an old-fashioned finishing school? It is, with one twist: the pupils are all men. Image consultant Mather and recruitment specialist Penny Edge tutor men, who range in age from 19 to 50, in modern manners at Britain's first male finishing school, founded in October 2005. "In these days of equality, what's good for women is good for men," says Mather, co-founder of the successful Finishing Academy for ladies in Cheshire. The gentlemen apparently agree. Mather has bookings for the men's academy through January 2007, and is considering setting up shop in North America...
...irresponsibility. The UC overruled a recommendation from the council’s Finance Committee (FiCom), which had voted not to award Mission Hill any of the $2,500 that the group had requested for vans. Mission Hill sends volunteers to housing developments in Roxbury four afternoons a week to tutor and mentor children ages five to 13. More than 80 Mission Hill supporters attended last night’s meeting, in an attempt to influence the council, according to Jonathan B.C. Tannen ’07, one of Mission Hill’s directors. “If we don?...