Word: tutored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...People are examined too much and too frequently"--Richard T. Gill '48, Senior Tutor of Leverett House and a member of the Committee on Educational Policy...
...first of these is the Scholar of the House program, in which courses are optional for a group of about twelve seniors. They meet biweekly, read papers to each other, and study under the guidance of a tutor...
...incomprehensible love affair that grows between the two is made plausible by Iris Murdoch's great tact with words. It is only when this serious novelist (she is a tutor in philosophy at Oxford's St. Anne's College) intrudes witchcraft into the plot that she seems to forget the difference between the reality of magic and the magic of reality. Mor's daughter Felicity, hoping to release her father from his enchantment, casts a spell and burns a figure (made of a nylon stocking stuffed with paper). Mother catches her at it: "Whatever were...
...Freshman wonders why the examination proctors marked the time he left the exam on his blue book and his tutor thought about the same practice, condemned it, and then was annoyed when a marking informed him that a student left the exam half-an-hour early. A professor wonders why his best student entered law school and a business school student wonders why Littauer students won't talk to him. And a grad student wonders if his parents will ask why he hasn't gotten his Ph.D...
...only other problem which presents itself is the installation of kitchen units. And this expense would be well worth the added inducement to prospective tutors. Given the face that tutorial is Harvard's outstanding claim to uniqueness and (on occasion) excellence, and given also the fact that tutors are underpaid, overworked, and a little anxious about appointment, something might well be done to make their role a bit more attractive. For married tutors who have been unable to find lodgings except in some remote area of Cambridge, this alteration would be of great help. And as for the disgruntled single...