Word: tutored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believes that U.S. education has long since gone to the dogs. When his own ten children were growing up, he insisted that each become trilingual and that all take piano lessons whether they had any talent or not. Once in Paris he rented a house, installed a French tutor on the fourth floor, a Latin tutor on the third, an English tutor on the second and a music teacher on the first. In their various colleges, all but one non-Catholic, the young Buckleys did well academically. They also made names for themselves in other ways...
Contacted last night, Carroll S. Miles, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Dunster, denied that any student was not '"free to remain in Wigglesworth if he chose...
...group, dissatisfied with Dunster, emphasized that it had made no formal application to remain in Wigglesworth. "I don't have any choice," said one sophomore, "so I never thought about it." One Dunster tutor said that he knew of no "official" ban on such a choice, but he felt any student making one could be persuaded of Dunster's advantages...
Carroll F. Miles, Allston Burr Senior Tutor, said that he was very pleased with the "enthusiastic response" to this attempt to give the members of Dunster a chance to "create." He said that he hoped that the program could be expanded in the future into such fields as sculpture or even the manual arts so that everyone could at least have the opportunity to participate. Approximately ten per cent of the members of Dunster are now in the program...
...year later, the English major is usually asked by his tutor, "What period is your weakest?" and then proceeds to tell him. The tutor is a rare exception who is more concerned with his tutee's desire than with the Department's stipulations. In his senior year, the English honors candidates must race more busily than ever through required books and courses so that if the tutor did wish to give him a free intellectual rein, thesis and general requirements are too oppressive a weight to permit...