Word: winthrops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There's something especially nice about the choice of Winthrop House's new senior tutor--nice because the House derives its name from John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony three centuries ago, and because this fact is so often overlooked. But no more. Benjamin W. Labaree, the new senior tutor, is that rare individual--a teacher of colonial history; and even more unlikely, his father teaches in the same field...
...father, Leonard W. Labaree, is Farnham Professor of History at Yale, presently engaged in editing the Benjamin Franklin Papers. So Labaree was born at New Haven, and thence began a journey which has led ultimately to the Winthrop House doorstep--but by the scenic route...
Dudley House Funds will again be used for a summer study scholarship and for concentration dinners, acting Allston Burr Senior Tutor Alexander Welsh '54 predicted, although plans are not yet final. Winthrop, Eliot and Dunster Houses have not yet decided how to use their Ford grants. Leverett House will discuss application of its funds tomorrow...
Thirty-one dollars was stolen from a Winthrop House room while the residents slept, and twelve thugs attacked freshmen downtown...
Science then meant Aristotelian science, even though the Copernican system had been adopted by the 1660's. There were no laboratories until the eighteenth century, and the only piece of scientific apparatus the College owned until that time was a telescope presented by Governor Winthrop...