Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour general examinations in the autumn. These examinations cover an elementary knowledge of light, heat, mechanics, sound, electricity, and atomic physics. The student prepares himself for them partly by a judicious selection of courses for the Sophomore and Junior years, and partly by work under the direction of his tutor...
...through a central bureau, it would seem logical to permit them to put down on their applications one choice of a House incases where there might be real land valid reason for so doing: having had a brother in the House, having all close fiends there, finding the desired tutor only in that House, being acquainted with the House master, and similar reasons. (Under the present system the men with the most valid reasons for entering a particular House are often neglected in favor of a large group to whom the choice of Houses may make little difference.) The number...
...role? I need not explain to you the origins of my interest in the functions of an undergraduate newspaper in a great University, but by way of general explanation let me add that, successively, as a CRIMSON editor, as the University's secretary for publicity, and new as a tutor in Economics, I have had this as a constant interest...
...tradition, and that this year's Freshman Class will encounter the same difficulties that other classes have faced. It is unlikely that the college will offer any remedy this year. Each individuals is therefore confronted by the necessity of learning to ignore his adviser, the harassed tutors on appointment duty, and all obviously opinionated points of view, and of seeking out the proper information for himself, it is not difficult to point out the potential mines of such information: there are friends either seniors or graduate students, perhaps an impartial tutor or instructor. But whatever the Freshman...
...historian, moreover, will not forget that the House take their architecture from a period when every inn boasted "Drunk for a penny, dead drunk for twopence." Even the Greek golden mean could not sober up the great tutor Person. These may be harsh truths, but Harvard can not with impunity appropriate the more outer trappings of Georgian buildings. Every discreet and rebellious panel years to look once more upon the honest revelry of ale. And the shades of the old Moors can not but rise in anger at the aridity of the common rooms which their antique arches crown...