Word: school
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Miss Martha Blume, activities director at the North End Union, claims that the "turnover among this high school group is naturally large. Most of the youngsters drop out as soon as they pass their courses, but every time report cards come out a swarm of parents descend, on as with their flunking children...
...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...
...University's food problem started very early in fact it was the school's first problem and quickly developed into a major crisis. The Pilgrim Fathers, eager for as many parental restrictions as possible, decreed that all students must eat at a common table, an insistence which plagued administrators for the next 200 years. With Mr. Nathaniel Eaton as the school's entire faculty, students ate in his home. He was charged with serving mostly "porrige and pudding, and that very homely ... without butter or suet." The students maintained they received "hasty pudding with goat's dung...