Word: winthrops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House Plan ends its 25th year, Ronald M. Ferry '12, Master of Winthrop House, can look back on one of the University's finest eras. Youngest of President Lowell's seven original Housemasters, Ferry is the only member of that group still...
Twenty-five years have brought many changes in the Houses, he says, but most important is the increased enrollment. Before the war, when there were only 270 men in Winthrop, he could call each by his first name. Now with 380, he finds it difficult just to remember all the faces. Though he must rely on an claborate filing system to refresh his memory for recommendations and the like, he continues to take a strong personal interest in the House members. Despite the growing enrollment, however, Ferry remains a firm supporter of the House system, and says, "If Harvard doesn...
After spending the First World War as a Lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps in Georgia, Ferry won a National Research Council fellowship and studied physical chemistry for two years at M.I.T. He returned to Harvard as an instructor in 1928, Master of Winthrop House in 1930, and associate professor in 1931. He has been at Winthrop ever since, with the exception of three years spent as a lieutenant colonel in the Medical Corps during World War II, in charge of chemical defense against biological warfare...
Further official pre-track meet standings put Winthrop in third place and Kirkland in fourth. The other positions will not be officially determined until after today's meet...
Although Dunster collected no first places in spring sports, it did register second place finishes in three: golf and rowing behind Eliot, and softball, behind Winthrop...