Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unacknowledged by the Corporation and unknown to himself, Bill Cunningham, Boston's oracular columnist, has become a stern tutor of journalese to two sections of English A students. Immersion in Cunningham's daily articles was prescribed by James a. Walker, instructor in English, who characterized the Boston scribe tersely as "a good mine of irresponsible logical development...
Heaven's grandsons have always had as little truck with women as possible. Princes of Japan's Imperial House were traditionally removed at an early age from feminine influence-even their own mother's. But last week Emperor Hirohito looked around for an American schoolmarm to tutor twelve-year-old Tsugu-no-miya Akihito ("The Prince of the August Succession and Enlightened Benevolence"). Hirohito begged Dr. George D. 'Stoddard, head of the American Education Mission, to help him pick the right kind of U.S. woman...
...School. In a school-house built for his benefit next to the Palace grounds-to spare the prince a "dangerous" trip down the street-he had learned his lessons by rote and recited them, singsong fashion, with other young male aristocrats. He had also studied English with a British tutor, long resident in Japan, whose future under an American matriarchy remained in doubt...
...Atlantic City last week, where the UNRRA council was meeting, a Soviet member of the council asked a U.S. official to coach him for meetings with the press. His tutor explained carefully the differences between "on the record," "not for attribution" and "off the record." Replied the Soviet's Nikolai Ivanovich Feonov: "It's simpler in the Soviet Union. If it is 'off the record,' we do not say anything...
Pondleton Herring, associate professor of Government, tutor in the Department of Government, and secretary of the Graduate School of Public Administration, has been granted a leave of absence for one year beginning July 1, Dean Buck announced Tuesday. He will become an executive associate of the Carnegie Corporation at that time...