Word: tutored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Richard T. Gill '48, instructor in Economics and Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Leverett House, has asked for a year's leave of absence from his Economics Department duties next year to devote more time to writing. He will continue as Leverett's Senior Tutor...
...other departments, a senior honors candidate can at least hope for a tutorial with a professor well-versed in his field. Not so in History and Lit., where (although a great majority of concentrators are honors candiates) most of the tutors are young instructors or graduate students, and where students are often assigned to a tutor with a different special field of interest than their...
...Board of Tutors, apparently aware of the growth of the good student to good tutor ratio, decided to eliminate some of the students, thus raising standards for honors while bettering tutorial. The Committee told the bottom quarter of junior concentrators last spring that they had failed their general exams and would not be able to write theses. The previous year, no junior failed on his History and Lit. generals...
...Students browse or simply sit down in one of his easy chairs to read. A somewhat small, pink-cheeked man with a gray line of a moustache, Mr. Cairnie usually sits in the far corner of a well-worn leather couch, skimming a catalogue or perhaps talking to a tutor, a Cambridge poet, or a student he knows well. His books, most of them first editions, stand in wall shelves or lie scattered at random on a large table in the center of the room. A shiny blue Anchor Books stand adds the one note of trimness and order...
Bernice the Breadwinner. After Harvard, Cozzens hibernated in Canada for a while on a publisher's handout of $15 a week, finished a mawkish Elizabethan historical romance (Michael Scarlett), taught some American sugar planters' children English and math in Cuba, junketed around Europe as tutor to a 14-year-old polio victim. Later, he drew on his Cuban impressions to write two more apprentice novels, Cockpit and The Son of Perdition, unlikely tales of tropic adventure. In Ask Me Tomorrow, Cozzens used his European experiences for a crisply satiric self-portrait, complete with a characteristic blast...