Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Criticized for her U. S. accent, Anna May Wrong paid an Oxford tutor ?200 to teach her his. Her vogue in London made her a featured player when she returned to the U. S. in 1930. Since then she has acted in a Broadway play, performed in Daughter of the Dragon, and Shanghai Express, sung in a London night club, made three British pictures, toured the British Isles in a song revue. Now in Hollywood, her next picture will be Limehouse Nights...
...meeting in the junior common room of Leverett House on Wednesday afternoon at 5 o'clock speeches will be made by Kenneth R. Murdock '16, professor of English and master of Leverett House, Allan Evans '34, senior tutor, several other tutors, and a representative of he house committee...
Adding another to the growing list of Harvard men who are going South to the Brain Trust, Alan R. Sweezy '29, instructor and tutor in Economics has received a leave of absence of one half year to continue work in Washington which was started in July, it was revealed today. Sweezy, a former CRIMSON President, and prominent in undergraduate affairs in college, was called to Washington this summer to work upon Social Insurance in connection with the Treasury Department. He has been prominent in his support of the administration this year, being one of the half dozen or more instructors...
...other appointments for the first half-year are those of Niles Carpenter of the University of Buffalo, who will come to Harvard as lecturer on Sociology; and Walter Rice Sharp of the University of Wisconsin, who will come as lecturer on government and tutor in the division of history, government and economics...
Undergraduates will spend a year on courses in government, history, economics, law. Degree-holders may take more advanced courses, work independently under a tutor, write a thesis. All students will study their subject at first hand in Government offices, Supreme Court, House & Senate galleries. Tuition: $150 per semester. Upon graduation will come the real work of finding a Government job on merit rather than political pull...