Word: bostonism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This crow of student tutors, the majority of whom are freshmen, works through 31 social service agencies in the Greater Boston area. According to Committee chairman Anthony G. Oettinger '51 most of the 335 tutees currently enrolled in the program are teenagers who are having trouble with the usual high school fare of Algebra, English, and languages...
...tutees are high school students. PBH this fall has quite a few Displaced Persons receiving instruction in English. Oettinger also said that he has an unfilled request on file from a group of mothers in East Boston who would like a Harvard tutor to conduct a speech improvement course for mothers...
Miss Elsie Rowland of the Roxbury Neighborhood center backed Skelly's opinions but added that "this is the first large scale tutoring being done by college students and in many places Boston school authorities have resented the Harvard arrangement as an insult to their schools...
...over-emphasis on social and economic miseries of our times. This gives a sense of guilt to the student or professor who wonders whether he is justified in absorbing himself in the study, "let us say, of the early Greek epic at Harvard while the poor of South Boston go hungry and unshed and Negroes are denied fundamental rights in the deep South...
...first two minutes of last night's Blockhouse game with Boston University the freshman basketball team looked as though it were going to hand the game to BU. But after this sloppy opening the Yardlings settled down, grabbed a 12 point half time lead, and kept the highly publicized Terriers panting along behind them, and finished with a 56 to 48 victory...