Word: shaler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...live in a Harvard housing development. The only real contact we have is with other Harvard people," observed William W. Hillier '62, who lives with his wife in an apartment in Shaler Lane. Even away from the Square, the same barrier exists, which, for example, separates Dunster House from the neighborhood right at its back door...
Summer education in the early years, however, bore little resemblance to the present large-scale venture. Organization was almost completely lacking. No central office directed the program until 1887 or 1888; in one of these years, the Corporation appointed a committee, headed Professor Nathaniel Shaler, to oversee the summer program...
Instructors established courses for their own financial benefit, with the University, in Shaler's words, "giving by the use of the buildings and apparatus, and thus ending its countenance to the project." The catalogue is sparse and riddled with omissions...
Physical Education classes and evening sociables were not the only entertainment of the summer. Excursions to such distant points as Lexington or Concord, Charlestown, Marblehead, or the New Hampshire lakes, filled weekends and afternoons. Evening lectures were given by men such as Shaler or Harvard philosophers Josiah Royce and William James. A conference on educational techniques, precursor of the annual meeting on pedagogical problems, met periodically...