Word: tutored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Descartes at 5 a.m. "Learning was to Christina what needles and thread were to other women," wrote a contemporary. When Queen of Sweden, she personally invited scholars from all of Europe to visit her country. For her own edification she commanded the French logical philosopher Descartes to tutor her at 5 a.m. (he contracted flu in the chilly Scandinavian dawns and died). The great composer Alessandro Scarlatti even dedicated an opera...
George H. Quester, instructor in Government, and head tutor in Government, disagreed. "We won't be driven out of Vietnam--the figures are credible that the North is losing more troops, and they will have to stop before we do." Quester said that the Viet Cong had been expecting a military victory, and that the reversal will probably cause hem to lose the momentum they have had until now. But he admitted that prospects still remain uncertain...
...Adams House Senior tutor forbids off-campus students to live on Putnam Ave, because his "impression of the neighborhood is that it is pretty bad." The Young Republicans show some inclination to elect a gorilla as their club's vice-president. The Atomic Energy Commission blames last summer's $1.5 million bubble-chamber explosion on faulty beryllium windows and says that only luck kept it from being worse...
...Faculty members have the highest average salary in the country (more than $17,500 a year), but the American Council on Education decides that the University of California at Berkeley is a better school. Oscar Handlin, chairman of the History Department, agrees to set up a committee for studying tutor's proposed changes but neglects to say when or who will be on it. The Med School lightens its first-year students work load. Summer school applications are up 300 per cent. Freshmen are assigned to Houses, but almost all of them strike out on "substantial." A few turn their...
...Vietnam war has drawn many liberals into the New Left camp this year. As one tutor in Government sympathetic to SDS explains, "As soon as you start to talk about Vietnam, you begin to have doubts about your government." Michael S. Ansara, an executive of the national chapter of SDS at Harvard, however, attributed the growth of SDS to the new image of the Left at Harvard. "The view of the mindless radical has gone out. We think before we act," he says...