Word: tutored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earful of fellow Oxonians to tour Switzerland on the first proceeds. The young idol-apparent, renamed Kris Carson by Promoter Lincoln, is dead serious about making a success as a singer, chiefly because he wants enough money to be able to support himself while he writes. Merton College Tutor Hugo Dyson is not worried that Kris will abandon literature for the larynx, calls Kris "one of the most favorable specimens of Rhodes scholarship" and "the kind of man you can trust to pick his own career." Stable Owner Lincoln finds his deep-thinking discovery "rather frightening." In case plans...
...principal reason for the surprisingly small figure may have been a fear among Freshmen that almost everyone else would apply to Quincy. Paul E. Sigmund, Jr., Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Quincy House, yesterday supported this explanation, labeling previous estimates of Quincy applications as "self-defeating...
Acknowledging the problem, John M. Bullitt '43, Head Tutor of the Department, pointed out that if any tutor is dissatisfied with a thesis grading assignment; he can either return it to the office, or trade with another tutor. Several teaching fellows said they had traded, to their mutual satisfaction...
Sigmund spent Christmas and Easter vacations on the continent with Stan Miles, now senior tutor at Dunster, the first in Italy and the second in Spain. "It was really comic opera in Spain. There were four of us--all over six feet--and our luggage, all loaded in Stan's Morris Minor. The unloading process resembled a circus act, and occasionally small crowed gathered to watch...
...January '58, Sigmund returned to Cambridge, a tutorial slot at Winthrop House, and a temporary end to travels. He spend the year writing his thesis ("with just a short break for a trip to India"), again assisted in Gov 1 and Gov 106, and this spring was named head tutor in Riesman's Soc Sci 136. And now, along with Master Bullitt, tutors named and unnamed, eighty hand-picked sophomores and juniors and many many uninterviewed freshman, he stands on the threshold of Quincy. Let's hope the threshold holds...