Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even if the administration wished to place more emphasis on a man's teaching ability and success as a tutor, when considering him for promotion, there is no sure and systematic method now in existence to judge him to this basis. Student opinion is rarely consulted or taken into account when weighing a man's values. An instructor's tutees are not asked if they were stimulated by their tutor, or if he devoted sufficient time to making the subject interesting and alive for them. Student judgment as to a man's teaching ability should weigh heavily when...
James A. Ross '34, instructor in Economics and tutor in the Division of History, Government and Economics, has been elected Professor of Economics at Syracuse University, it was announced yesterday...
Ross has been connected with the University for a considerable period of time, acting as Senior Tutor at Adams House for the past five years...
...Napoleon Bonaparte only in that he is currently writing his memoirs. At Harvard, where he delivered a series of Godkin lectures on Germany last year, Herr Brüning will next term be a full-fledged faculty member. As such he will give a course on international economic policies, tutor a few advanced students, draw a full professor's pay ($8,000 to $12,000) presumably for life. Harvardmen thought he might be the first notable acquisition for the $2,000,000 Littauer School of Public Administration which President James Bryant Conant hopes to launch next year...
...much interested in school, he made few friends there; but he landed his first poem (in a Greenwich Village magazine) when he was 16. When his mother filed petition for divorce Harold dropped out of school, was put on an allowance and allowed to go to Manhattan, theoretically to tutor for college. Instead of tutoring, he plunged head-first into Greenwich Village life. By the time he had his next few poems published he had begun to sign himself Hart Crane...