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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...topical satire. While her husband King Lot is away fighting Arthur, Queen Morgause, comic symbol of the egocentric wife, attempts the seduction of lovesick King Pellinore (3.2 Don Quixote) and Sir Grummore Grummursum (Sancho Panza on rye). Meanwhile her neglected sons Gawaine, Agravaine, Gaheris and Gareth confound their Saracen tutor Palomides, who talks rather like Charlie Chan, and beg stories from heretic St. Torealvac (parody brogue), who inhabits a beehive and drinks mountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Arthurian Cocktail | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Gordon W. Allport '19, associate professor of Psychology and Tutor in the Division of Philosophy and Psychology, has become one of the charter members of the organization which now numbers around...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scientific Scrapbook | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

They found still on the campus "the Colonel" (Horace M. Poynter), oldtime Latin teacher, and "Georgie" (George Walker Hinman), a Greek and Latin tutor who once bit a pencil in two when a pupil failed to conjugate amare. Missing was "Zeus" (Allen Rogers Brenner), famed old Greek teacher, many another familiar face. The old boys found other changes. In ten years a revolution had taken place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Andover | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Behind the confusion the issues are clear. More full professorships are financially impossible under the present budget, and creating them would not solve the teach-tutor problem. More associate professorships can be paid for out of current income, and they will answer undergraduate needs. The Government Department can be revived if the right smelling-salts are chosen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REVIVING THE GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

Make no mistake about that Indian line. As long as the first-string men are able to hold out, Dartmouth will probably have a slight edge on Harvard. Line tutor Ellinger has a habit of coming up with a pretty good forward wall, and this year is no exception. Nevertheless, the Green are green and are quite capable of being duped by Harvard gulle...

Author: By D. D. P., | Title: What's His Number? | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

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