Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shepard Jones, instructor and tutor in Government, has been elected director of the World Peace Foundation, it was announced yesterday...
...present a resident tutor of Kirkland House, Jones will leave for Europe in July to study the general political situation...
Lest the school fall into too deep a rut, each of the 28 houses in which Eton boys live changes its name and its tutor every 16 years (three Eton generations). The curriculum changes more slowly. A hundred years ago every boy studied Greek and Latin, today most still study Latin, about half Greek. But now all boys must take mathematics, science, French and history. A revolutionary development in this 500-year-old classical school is the popularity of its new workshops, where about 100 of Eton's 1,150 young aristocrats, in their spare time, use lathes...
Life at Eton is full of strange and inhuman punishments for Lower Boys. They tremble at a summons from "The Library," dread the tutor's ticket which carries penalties ranging from a sharp look, or writing 100 lines of Latin, to a sound tanning. But Eton's humbling birch rods, fagging and games are no match for the educational effect of Eton's snobbish traditions. Today it is still true of its products that "Etonians as a class are not popular with non-Etonians...
With Paul planning to devote full time to graduate work and instruction as a tutor in the Department of History and Stackpole moving his office in University Hall down one floor, Huntington Thom '35, of Washington, succeeds to the Conant secretarial post. Thom is a third year Law student...