Word: tutored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Oxbridge Words. The "don" in don rag comes from the Oxbridge term for tutor, and the "rag" is an Anglicism, meaning to scold. Scolding is not its only function. The catalogue calls the don-rag "diagnosis and prescription," and students in difficulty are given extra don-rag periods, throughout the term. Dean John S. Kieffer believes that those having the hardest time should receive the tenderest treatment. The sophomore who was charged with flippancy and debunking was considered a bright but complacent boy who could take the harsh words...
Forty volunteers will be recruited to tutor applicants who were not included when PBH set up the original pilot project in September, Gray said...
...addition to the "Challenge" project will be modified because PBH cannot afford more money for materials, according to Joseph N. P. Ozawa Jr. '67, coordinator of the program. The new volunteers will be asked to tutor boys individually once a week, Ozawa said, with each pair free to determine a course of study...
...Harvard tutor, a staunch Democrat, likes to call it the "Ripley Society." "I don't know whether to believe them or not," he explains. And why should he? The idea of a group of Harvard men forming the core of a Republican group seems to contradict the very core of the conventional wisdom. And the idea of such a small group receiving national attention (the Cambridge-Boston chapter is only about 80 strong) seems absurd...
...began giving his course in French medieval history (now known as History 122) in 1927, and launched a course on medieval intellectual history (History 121) three years later. Taylor also earned his doctorate, was named assistant professor, and became a tutor in 1927. He was appointed associate professor in 1934 and full professor...