Word: tutored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crooks nods absently. He is surviving and not thinking a great deal about humanity and sadness, although the two work their way through his life constantly, without his having to call them forth. He has a new wife and child to think about--she was the Dudley House Senior Tutor's secretary, and he married her one day four years ago during lunch hour--and the Summer School to look after. When he comes right down to it perhaps the thing Crooks likes best about the Summer School is its open admissions policy, the way it lets anyone who wants...
...biography consists of little more than a professor's résumé: son of a collector of customs; student at Oxford; a popular lecturer at Edinburgh University; tutor to the young Duke of Buccleuch; full professor of logic and then of moral philosophy at Glasgow; and author in 1759 of a philosophical treatise, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. A bachelor, Smith relied on his mother and a maiden cousin to keep house; if any love affairs ever distracted him from his studies, they have gone unrecorded. "I am a beau in nothing but my books," he once remarked...
Karl E. Case, head tutor of the Economics Department, said yesterday. "I like Holyoke Center. I think it's a nice place to have a tutorial office. My concern is that the undergraduate office not be screwed out of any space. Our department is not going to take a cut without a lot of screaming...
...except by mailing messages to Post Office Box 8995 in Boston," the Adams House secretary says. "I see him from time to time. Yes, I've seen him once this year. He's been around for several years, you know. No one quite knows where he lives," says senior tutor Hugh Berryman...
...isolation also gives way to a certain reticence, though to varying degrees. Robert Sullivan, a history tutor in Kirkland House, shies away from discussing his term of Army duty in South Vietnam. "I'm sorry to be disobliging, but although I'm something of a fount of Saigon tales, I don't think my experiences with the ancien regime are worthy of splashing across the newspaper page at the breakfast table." Sullivan says. "I was stationed in Saigon, but never carried a rifle...