Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beta Kappa along with his classmate, Professor Gordon Allport. "The modern era with its closeness of instructor and student was beginning to supplant the old one, in which professors were in the main people apart." Another undoubtedly invigorating circumstance was the fact of having Harold Laski for a tutor for three years. "Since I was influenced strongly and simultaneously by Laski and by Irvin Babbitt, who with his theories of 'inner cheeks' you might call Conservative, a tug of war ensued in me. It ended with my becoming what some people have called a fence sitter...
Sophomores and Juniors in the History and Literature field of concentration will have a chance this spring to compete for two prizes, each amounting to fifty dollars worth of books, which were an annual award in pre-war days. Elliott Perkins '23, lecturer on History and tutor in History and Literature, said last night...
...watched," Kuhn's committee will distribute a lengthy questionnaire to all departments within the next few weeks. Kuhn said that the poll would determine whether the departments are maintaining tutorial at the same level as a year ago, and ask for estimates on the duration of the existing teacher-tutor shortage...
...midst of this ponderous Army game, a few conclusions stand clear. The first is that there is a strong impetus stemming from high places for permanent cutbacks in tutorial. Whether this squares with the Administration's claim that tutorial is now on a "firmer footing" is left for future tutor-less undergraduates to evaluate. The second is that the individual departments have been more willing to accept this pressure than they have been to stand firm now for some concrete planning that would actually put strength into the tutorial system. And lastly, the issue of tutorial has been allowed...
When Elizabeth Gray Vining left for Japan to become tutor to its Crown Prince, U.S. newspapers wondered whether Akihito would learn distaff democracy at her knee. Last week Mrs. Vining sent the U.S. an informal report on her first two months in Tokyo. One between-the-lines conclusion: it might take a long time...