Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Raymond Leslie Buell, former Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard, will return to the University for the present half year as lecturer and tutor of Government, it was announced yesterday at University Hall. He will also conduct a seminar on some aspects of the American foreign policy...
...cumbersome and needlessly involved, a sort of haunting forget-me-not inherited from an age and a people who spiced their moral restrictions with a good New England imagination. In all the Houses, save Adams and Dunster, for instance, it is necessary to procure such permissions from the Senior Tutor or House Secretary twenty-four hours before the artful female is to inject her touch of potential scandal between sober Georgian walls...
This rule is not a regimentation. It is not even dictatorial. It is merely a auisance to all concerned. The student must be sure of his plans a day ahead of time; he must, in many instances, seek out that elusive figure, the Senior Tutor, who must, in turn, submit to constant interruption in the name of moral order. This is not necessary. In any case, the Janitor remains the watchdog, and the twenty-four hour rule can have no other justification than Puritanism. The Janitor, moreover, is a handy fellow, easily and always accessible. There seems...
...hall of learning after another, but wherever he was he drew throngs of worshipful listeners. Authoress Waddell's narrative finds him at the peak of his career, the shining star of the Paris Schools. When old Fulbert, canon of Notre Dame, invited Abelard to share his house and tutor his beautiful niece Heloise, Abelard was living the unconsciously uncomfortable life of a natural bachelor. Under Fulbert's roof he quickly caught fire from Heloise's adoration. One night the old man found them in bed together...
Norman Robertson of the Canadian Foreign Office and tutor in Government at Adams House in place of Professor Bruce C. Hopper will be the guest of honor at the Adams House dinner Monday evening and afterwards he will speak in the upper common room on the London Economic Conference where he served as a member of the Canadian delegation...