Word: tutored
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Cabot, who graduated in 1917, after three years, returned from service in World War I to spend a year at the College as a tutor in the Department of History, Government, and Economics. He left in 1920 and was associated with the New York Evening Post until...
Until the middle of last year, if a student could convince his Senior Tutor that leaving the House would be in his best interest, permission was generally forth-coming. The Houses did not noticeably suffer as a result, and a number of students were enabled to pursue their work under what was, for them, better conditions...
With only a few more years left until the construction of new Houses and with that event, more single rooms, it is unfortunate that the Masters have decided to slam the doors now. When the right to leave the House was left to the discretion of the individual Senior Tutor, who knew the case best, there was, even then, no large scale exodus. The Senior Tutors have the best interests of the House as well as the student in mind and, moreover, they are by virtue of their position, best qualified to judge the needs of both...
These problems do not, of course, entirely negate the value of the existing program. When good students are brought together with good tutors, no amount of generalized apathy can entirely eliminate fruitful abrasion. The problem is that, if tutorial is to realize its great potential, it must be made vitally important to both student and tutor. The primary responsibiliy for such a change in attitude rests with the departments and the tutors, for the student will almost always accept the attitude which his tutor adapts towards their mutual endeavor. Rarely will an undergraduate react with indifference to an interested...
...famous 18th century satire against facile optimism and idealism, Voltaire had guileless young Candide's tutor, Dr. Pangloss, teach him that this is the best of all possible worlds. Chanting his faith, he and his tutor and his sweetheart Cunegonde are catapulted from one misfortune to the next, witnessing or enduring in 20 pages more crime, misery and calamity than exist in all Greek tragedy; in fact, Candide himself, "the mildest man in the world," is constantly killing people. At long last he is led from idealism to the commonsense of keeping strictly to his own concerns, of cultivating...