Word: tutored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reforms the administration proposes are woefully insufficient. Better training for proctors and counselors, increased publicizing of the Bureau of Study Counsel and encouragement of tutor-student contact all seem directed at weaving a finer net below students so that none fall through. What would be more useful would be to reach students not when they're already well on the way down, but when they're still in the air. It seems silly to intervene only at the latest possible stage; sure, it may prevent actual suicides, absolving Harvard of guilt, but it will not spare students the terror...
...trite or irrelevant for our learned discourse: that the honors for which we sell our souls are Faustian purchases, that the study carrels in which we spend January and May are lonelier than coffins, that the competitiveness here is a posture whose graceless stiffness no conversation with a tutor could soften. We have all become hunchbacks before our time and we have only ourselves and each other to blame for the burden, but that does not make it any less real. We know these things, we know that Harvard is sick and, not for the first time, turning...
...places to linger over a meal outside and listen to Hannah's sparkling laugh echo across the Quad; they are surfaces to sketch out thesis notes and to do take-home exams. One table, tipped on its side, becomes a backstop for a pitcher when Julian, our senior tutor, steps up to home plate and slugs a ball into the cupola on top of Briggs Hall...
...Summer, the decision to come to Harvard was unexpected--she decided to apply only eight days before the January 1 deadline. She credits her application and subsequent admission to the Heritage program at Quincy High School, an alternative learning system which allowed her to tutor in the morning, take classes in the afternoon and take college classes at night--at the Harvard Extension School...
...accident that Clinton is proving especially good at this. In 1988 he watched in pain as Michael Dukakis was battered without mercy by George Bush. Clinton was so upset by the Democratic nominee's failure to punch back that he flew from Little Rock to Boston to tutor Dukakis staff members on the wisdom and methods of rapid response. But no one listened until it was too late; Dukakis thought the ads about furloughed killer Willie Horton did not need to be answered simply because they were stupid and wrong, ignoring the fact that they were devastating. By the time...