Word: gill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...study of Depression life was a characteristic Gill short story not only in that it dealt with the introspections of an imaginative and sensitive mind, but also in another, more important respect: it described children. And it concentrated on the tangled process of their growing...
...several short stories that the next Master of Leverett House wrote in the mid 1950's, the one that was most popular related a schoolboy's experiences during the Depression. Like nearly all of Mr. Gill's writing, the story concerned psychological development; a few years after it first appeared, an anthology editor republished it, together with half a dozen pieces by other authors, under a quite appropriate collective heading--"Understanding One's Self...
...seems entirely natural that at the time he was writing about this sort of subject, Mr. Gill should have already have decided to make his career in the field of education. His special bent has proved to be the administration of college affairs, a field to which he brought a pronounced feeling for the individual student. In the words of one tutor who has worked with him in Leverett House for the past several years, "Gill has always been unusually willing to go to bat for his boys...
Such a proposal may not seem too absurd if one recalls the experience of the analogous Gill plan to open tutorial to non-Honors concentrators. If the Faculty had passed a Gill plan that required departments to tutor absolutely all non-Honors students, it would undoubtedly have met the fate the Tuesday legislation is likely to meet. It passed because it allowed department discretition in determining who might be excluded from tutorial through failure to satisfy rock-bottom criteria. The method of liberalizing the cum loud degree suggested here would permit like discretion--although in this case the Faculty should...
...Relations, it still seems reasonable to hope that the spirit in which Soc Rel tutorial is offered will spread to other field and that other tutorial will also become available to all those who want to take them and can do the work. This, after all, is what the Gill plan envisioned...