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...idea for an Adams brewery was born late last year when poetry tutor Zachary C. Sifuentes ’97 proposed it to the House Committee. Before approving it, the House Masters needed proof that the endeavor had been fully thought through. “We wanted a brewmaster and we wanted a plan that didn’t involve making it in the bathtub. We have a bias toward medically safe procedures in the house,” Palfrey, a specialist in pediatrics, said...
...fair, although Adams house was the first to formally make beer brewing a house tradition, it wasn’t the first to venture into the world of wort. Last fall, Winthrop tutor Jonathan P. Wilson began making the bubbly stuff in Winthrop’s Senior Common Room. His e-mails over the Winthrop House list, inviting anyone over the age of 21 to help brew, have met with plenty of enthusiasm. “I’ve had as many as 30 kids watching the pot boil,” Wilson said. When I met with...
...they so choose and the Dean readily appoints one, ordinarily from the pool of Board members who are not also resident deans. In addition to the representative to the Board, a student can also ask for a personal advisor, someone who is an officer of FAS (a professor, coach, tutor, etc.), to come to their appearance before the Board or its subcommittee with them...
...discussed this kind of work in public service in a panel on Saturday afternoon. All the panelists described following unexpected paths that began at PBHA. Toby N. Romer ’94, for example, is now the headmaster of Brighton High School, where he worked as an after-school tutor his freshman year. Many panelists warned that they were wary of a Harvard degree when screening applicants. Romer said he worried about a lack of ability to connect theory and practice. “I look for people with an ability to function in imperfect situations...
...always busy. Looking at his accomplishments and activities is a lesson in achievement. Peter was incredibly active in all of his courses and his research. He also found time to perform as a violinist in the Mozart Society Orchestra and serve as an English-language tutor for the Phillips Brooks House Association’s Chinatown tutoring program. But he never let his activities come in the way of his friends. He immediately welcomed you in with a warm hello, and he always seemed to know what you were up to. Peter remembered what courses you were taking, what...