Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...served last year the following have accepted invitations to serve again this year: Charles W. Duhig G, of Newton, J. MacL. Hawkes, Instructor in German, and A. W. Samborski, of Watertown, Instructor in Physical Education and Director of Intramural Athletics. Elbert Payson Little, of Worcester, Assistant in Physics and Tutor in the Division of Physical Sciences, joins the Center as a luncheon associate for the first time this year. Two more associates, to complete the list of six, will be named at an early date...
...student living a House must obtain special permission from the Master or the Senior Tutor to receive women guests in his room...
...realm of ancient cultures, the Harvard staff will be assisted by one of England's most brilliant Greek scholars. Dr. Cecil M. Bowra, Senior Tutor since 1933 of Wadham College, Oxford, will give courses in Homer's "Odyssey" and in "Greek Lyric Poetry of the Fifth Century." At the age of 19, Dr. Bowra fought in France with the Royal Field Artillery. Upon graduating from New College, Oxford, in 1920, he specialized in the study of Classical Greek Poetry, and has published several works, including "Tradition and Design in the Iliad," 1930; "Ancient Greek Poetry," 1933; "Greek Lyric Poetry...
Edward H. Dewey (Dr. Peebles) a former Tutor himself, has exhumed a very amusing "Tutor Henry Flynt" from Harvard's past. The reviews are good, the fiction only fair, the poetry provacative but not good. Mother Advocate has done well to turn her head toward the questions which the Tercentenary brought to the fore, and the articles, both timely and highly interesting, will undoubtedly start discussions at both high table and Dudley Hall...
...what the university tradition meant to the Anglo-Saxon world of the seventeenth century. Harvard's founders insisted on the "collegiate way of living," thus recognizing the importance of student life. They knew the educational values which arise from the daily intercourse between individual students and between student and tutor. Their concept of professional training was, to be sure, largely cast in terms of the ministry, but they envisaged also training in the law and medicine. The liberal arts educational tradition they transplanted in toto from the colleges which they had left behind. And finally, their zeal for the cultivation...