Word: winterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many, perhaps most Harvard students. To them, the Summer School is not their Harvard, but rather a strange sort of recreational activity that takes over Cambridge during the warmer months of the year. It's the sort of attitude that make buttons reading "I Go Here in the Winter" fast moving items among Harvard students summering in Cambridge a few years...
Though no one pretends that the Summer School is, or should be, as academically geared as winter Harvard, today's summer students appear to be spending more time in the Lamont Library, and less roaming the streets of Cambridge looking for their lifelong (or summerlong, at least) mate. In fact, a few Faculty members who have taught summer classes have even been heard to murmur that their summer students study more seriously than the Harvard-Radcliffe breed...
About half of the faculty of the Summer School hold regular Harvard appointments. The remainder, those who don't teach at Harvard during the winter, are recommended for Summer School appointments by the Harvard departments. And many of this second group either received graduate degrees from Harvard, or taught here at one time or another as junior or senior Faculty members...
Harvard departments sometimes give new courses a shakedown cruise, as it were, during the Summer School, before including the courses in their winter offerings...
...member summer student body, about 30 per cent go to Harvard or Radcliffe during the winter months. Despite their substantial numbers, however, the H-R students are probably not as evident around the Summer School as those who come from other colleges...