Word: tutored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there were roughly ten similar seniorevents, according to Nadia Shalaby, the BeverageAuthorization Team (B.A.T.) coordinator, and aKirkland house tutor...
...historian, it is also a sort of trans-century canticle whose themes resound through the decades in transmuted, enriched forms. Stoppard has devised the perfect setting for his verbal ambiguity and punning, as when he plays on the phrase "the action of bodies in heat." To Thomasina and her tutor Septimus Hodge, the words suggest the entropic universe of the second law of thermodynamics and the collapse of classical mathematics. But to Chloe Coverly, a distant descendant of Thomasina, those bodies are human and the heat is sexual. Words, no less than the house's visitors, are constantly...
Phelan is laid back. "He listens to students as if they were people," says Marshall W. Fordyce '97, mentioning that his tutor is not at all perturbed to be woken up on a Saturday morning by a student looking to borrow a frisbee. "I feel like Jay's really psyched when you share something," says Fordyce...
Interesting and interested are the words which leap to mind when discussing Adams House resident tutor Carsey Yee. "A large part of being charismatic is being unafraid, and Carsey's good at that," says Scott F. Kocher '97. Carsey is not shy. "If you're in a room with Carsey, you know you're in a room with Carsey," follows Jonathan E. Finkelstein '96. Carsey's laugh is enough to put anyone at ease. He can invariably be spotted in the dining hall, pulling up a chair next to a student or introducing himself to someone he doesn't know...
Though not zany, Chistoph H. Luthy, Lowell House resident tutor in the History of Science, is "always looking for the intellectual punch line," in the words of Henry B. Nguyen '95. Luthy calls his native Switzerland an "uncharismatic nation," but he is definitely not devoid of charisma. "H genuinely cares for his tutees and their well-being," says Rene Reyes '95, "and he's done things well beyond the call of duty." In fact, when Reyes couldn't afford the flight home to Texas over Spring break his sophomore year, Luthy arranged for him to fly home in the plane...