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...Radcliffe was a simpler place then," according to Catherine D. Williston, associate dean and dean of North House (now on leave). "Students had fewer options, and advising was easier." Since the early sixties, Harvard has expanded freshman seminars, independent study, and general education, multiplying the choices of a freshman has and the decisions she must make...
Administrators say that students and advisors must share interest in order to establish any meaningful relationship. But freshmen are assigned to advisors in their houses randomly; Dean Williston says there is a "deliberate effort" not to fit students to their advisors, for fear of limiting them. Administrators also say that advisors should participate in more house activities, but many are too busy with their own academic work to do so. One dean said that "You have to teach to understand students," but, as her colleague said, "Some people neither want you nor need...
Yale freshman coach Jim Barton has never lost a meet at home, nor to Harvard, but his team has lost to Princeton and Williston, both of which lost to the Crimson...
Archibald Cox '34, Samuel Williston Professor of Law, said that in the event the contractor could not find enough workers, "we would work in what ways we could with the community agencies...
...Dorothy Zinberg, research sociologist to the University Health Services, will act as dean of North House this Spring, during Dean Catherine Williston's sabbatical...