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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tutors are young instructors or graduate students and ... students are often assigned to a tutor with a different field of interest than their own." About the first point, members of the Committee have long ago expressed themselves as willing to tutor highly qualified seniors and every year several students avail themselves of this privilege. A check with other large departments suggests that the number of students working with permanent members of the faculty is about the same--and equally low--everywhere. Of our 196 concentrators last year, eight had tutorial with senior professors or members of the Committee. In History...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HISTORY AND LITERATURE | 9/28/1957 | See Source »

...function of art, in imposing a credible order upon ordinary reality, and thereby eliciting some perception of an order in reality, to bring us to a condition of serenity, stillness, and reconciliation; and then leave us, as Virgil left Dante, to proceed toward a region where that guide can avail us no farther." Insofar as Eliot has always derived his theories from his practice, this is his ex post facto description of the Four Quartets, a poetic bridge between the realms of the material and the spiritual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Poet's Shoptalk | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

...mention, is a gross inaccuracy, as all passengers, first, cabin and third, were informed that alternative means of transportation would be secured for them if they so wished and that this would be entirely at the expense of this company. By far the greater percentage of passengers who did avail themselves of this offer were third class, including 60 Jamaican Boy Scouts and 15 Chilean Boy Scouts for whom a special plane was chartered to bring them to London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 2, 1957 | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

...title against California's chunky Darlene Hard. It was no contest. Ranging the court like a restless panther, Althea had her big game zeroed in with power and precision. Darlene, a former waitress in Montebello, scampered to retrieve Althea's flat-trajectory volleys, but to little avail. Final score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Power Game | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

...tutorial for credit and course reduction offer gradeless, relatively independent study for some students. The line between them blurs, and it is hard to tell how much tutorial for credit succeeds when it is anything but a thesis course or a cram session for generals. Not too many students avail themselves of this privilege, which is infrequently pushed by departments...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: The Grading System: Its Defects Are Many | 6/13/1957 | See Source »

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