Word: tutored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Widespread rumor attributed the sign and the blaze to irate cat-haters of C-Entry who were trying to burn several kitties in effigy. It is said that the discontents were retaliating against the actions of several cats owned by the House Senior Tutor, Robert M. O'Clair...
Among the educator's recommendations was to deemphasize class rank as an important factor in college admission, so that bright students would not elect easy courses for high grades. For "highly-gifted" students, Conant suggested special work, a tutor, and college-level work as seniors. He recommended a tuition-free summer school operated by all school boards for ambitious students as well as deficient pupils...
...Suzanne H. Rudolph, instructor in Government as of January 1, has been appointed a non-resident tutor at Quincy. Her husband, Lloyd Rudolph, also to become an instructor in Government this January, is a non-resident tutor at Dunster House. Bullitt said he realizes that there may be some dissent about having a woman as a House tutor but, "I am delighted to find someone of Mrs. Rudolph's intellectual stature and I see no reason for discrimination here...
Other appointees named yesterday by Bullitt are David D. Perkins '51, instructor in English, as a resident tutor, and Thomas M. Woodward, teaching fellow in History and Literature, who will be either a resident or non-resident tutor. Other members of the tutorial staff will be named in January according to the distribution of majors among upperclassmen transferring to Quincy House...
Moreover, the increased size of the board of tutors has been accompanied, not by a proportional rise in the number of concentrators, but by a decrease in the time each tutor devotes to History and Lit. As a result, the tutors are to an extent less interested in History and Lit and have, some critics charge, very little idea of the field as a "synthetic" discipline. Taylor and Sterling Dow, Chairman of the Committee, have tried to alleviate the size of the problem by breaking the tutorial lunches up into fields, with the tutors in England, America and the other...