Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Employment at summer camps, hotels, yacht-clubs, and as tutor-companions, have been the four main fields in recent years, Sharpe states. But in each case the general economic condition has made student-employment difficult. For this reason the bureau has sent out twice as many announcements as customary, 600 to hotels, 400 to camps, 400 to families who have used tutor-companions in the past, and 50 to yacht-clubs and country-clubs...
Rupert Emerson '22, Instructor in Government, and Tutor in the Division of History, Government and Economies, will become Assistant Professor of Government in September, 1931. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of London in 1927, and became instructor and Tutor at Harvard in the fall of that year...
...family has been prominent in the history of the University from the time when Michael, of the Class of 1651, was a tutor and a member of the Corporation. In six generations, none in the direct line fell below third scholar in his class. The death of Mr. George Wigglesworth, of the Class of 1874, occurred on November 28, 1930. He was for two terms on Overseer of Harvard College, and for the last three years thereof president of the Board...
...tells of the minor and restrained happenings at the country home of a bustling efficient Russian country gentleman. His wife, Natalie Petrovna, is bored with him and with Rakitin, who is a friend of the husband and a too earnest, too reasonable lover of the wife. A handsome, bashful tutor comes to the household to take charge of the education of young Kolia. The wife falls in love with Aleksei Nikolaevich (the tutor). Her ward, 17-year-old Viera, also falls in love with the tutor, who imagines himself in love with Natalie Petrovna...
...characters go through worries, advances, retreats, for four acts, and the play ends finally when the tutor goes back to Moscow. The characters shrug their shoulders, and murmur "what's the use?" with the same feeling of futility that is worrying Stalin today when he finds his railroad workers feeling futile about switches and train signals...