Word: tutored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What is most intolerable about this situation is the case with which it could be changed. The Administration should simply give the Senior Tutors and the Dean of Freshmen the discretionary authority to excuse a student from an examination for which he was unable to prepare adequately because of illness. A physician's signature would be required, and the Senior Tutor would simply countersign the excuse if convinced that the period of illness was crucial to preparation for the exam. Putting the burden of proof on the student would minimize abuse of the rule...
...Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest (irreverent parents dub it "the celestial snooze") and by the Brick Presbyterian Church. Prudent parents apply to at least three nursery schools, since they cannot be sure that they or their child will pass the tough admission interviews. One worried couple hired a tutor to teach their boy how to cope with coloring books...
...prekindergarten children attend Saturday classes to help prepare for school. Twenty college students prepare for teaching careers by working with 100 potentially delinquent elementary school pupils. An Urban Service Corps recruits 1,000 adult volunteers, including such Government wives as Mrs. Robert McNamara and Mrs. Francis Keppel, to tutor children, take them to historical sites, advise parents...
...Camp is a continuation program which the committee during the college year people in the housing proper program includes tutor- on, and community...
...Roman philosopher Seneca came to a sad end. Spurred by patriotism, he came out of exile to tutor Emperor Claudius' unstable stepson Nero and was rewarded for his pains several years later when his onetime student ordered him to commit suicide. At least Nero recognized greatness; ordinary mortals died by torture when a shadow crossed the Emperor's demented brain. In this threadbare, novelistic pastiche, Vincent Sheean treats Seneca far worse. Though the historical Seneca was second only to Cicero as an exponent of Stoicism, Sheean's Seneca has only windy self-pity and a maundering facility...