Word: theres
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The PBH tutorial program was instituted in 1938 then disintegrated during the war. Last year there were about 60 men tutoring, with this year's turnout being the highest since the war. All the work is done on a charitable basis.
There are a number of tutees who are not struggling with Algebra 1, but who are trying to prepare themselves for college. One of this group was tutored at the North End Union last spring by a PBH man, and entered Radcliffe this fall. This year one of the tutees...
The undergraduates have lost the traditional curtain-raiser only once, in 1938, and there is not much chance of it happening again this year. The return to the fold of Bill Graham, junior breaststroker, has greatly bolstered the team's strength, particularly in the medley relay.
If this tendency becomes more widespread, Berlin argues, there will be "a rapid end to all the liberal arts and sciences. In such a world A is busily engaged in helping B to train C to help A-to help him toward what goal? Only to make him more useful...
But by British university standards, many "could not... either read or write...Somewhere in their early education there was a failure to order, to connect, and to discriminate... they read rapidly, desperately, and far too much ... and the result was often a fearful intellectual congestion from which many of them...