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Although they lack hard numbers, House resident tutors estimate that between a third and half of students who take the LSAT take commercial courses to prepare; for the MCAT, as many as 80 percent take courses, according to Winthrop pre-med tutor Allison L. McDonough...
...Winthrop has become my adopted House during the day," she says...
Tiger Edwards '01 is a psychology concentrator in Winthrop House. Her column appears on alternate Wednesdays...
There are no neon signs or gaudy trimmings proclaiming the site of room 14 in the F entryway of Winthrop House. A simple blue placard tacked to the door identifies the dorm room haunted by, as one visitor called it, "The Ghost of Charisma Past." Welcome to the JFK Suite...
...What about the man behind the placard? During his studies in Cambridge, JFK nearly drowned in the ivy sea, fumbling through campus politics and athletics. A member of the Hasty Pudding and the Freshman Smoker Committee, he managed to pull gentleman's Cs. Ronald Ferry, then head of Winthrop House, characterized JFK as "reasonably inconspicuous," and an old friend recalls his amorous reputation: "Jack never even went steady until late in his senior year." Author and Crimson editor Cleveland Amory '39, described him as "a pleasant, interesting guy. But the legend that we considered him destined for the presidency...