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...DiVirgilio obtains permission from the watch commander to leave her normal patrol zone around the Radcliffe Quad and patrol “all sectors...
Considerably older than Heimert during his years in Lowell House, Bossert adjusted more easily. “Strange though it seemed at first,” he explains, “having two or three hundred people milling about on the first floor eating brownies became normal, even negligible, after the first few months.” The duties of House Masters require constant attention. William Bossert jokes that he used his children as “slave labor for entertainment” at weekly teas. For Greg, helping out at the teas “was hard work, hard...
...time he held down a day job while playing in a rock band. (He now lives in Germany.) His younger sister Sarah, who also grew up in Lowell, graduated from Harvard College in 1985 and lived in Quincy House. To make his daughter’s Harvard experience as normal as possible, William Bossert packed up his car as if the family were going to take a long road trip—and drove around the block to drop her off in Quincy. Though the former Master insists that he and his daughter maintained separate lives at the College...
...Harvard we’re encouraged to pad and perfect our resumes, to schmooze and network and kiss all kinds of ass. Women here want to be CEOs and sit behind the Oval Office desk. This is all normal and I, too, am ambitious. But during this quasi-crisis, I feel like I have to choose between professional success and personal (maternal) happiness. I’d like to be able to prepare an afternoon snack for my kids and go to all their T-ball games and still have 800 employees, but I’m scared...
...sooner did he get a perfunctory guffaw from the class for effect, than he gave a brief exhortation to the class to go home and think about the interesting ethical dilemma of engineering life as artwork. Without further comment, he clicked the slide continuing the lecture as normal...