Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Examinations in his senior year, complaints about the value of sophomore tutorial in preparing him to deal with his field as a whole. Moreever, there is an extraordinary difficulty of getting six students to agree on a common subject--not to mention even a common hour. Whatever subject the tutor settles on--a major author or a topic like seventeenth century prose, or the modern novel, half his group will be already taking a more specialized course in it or prefer to do so the following year. If this sort of duplication is pleasing to some students...
...this, if it were to succeed, could be worked out only gradually. For the disparity in approach among tutors might be enormous. There would be complaints about the relative value or at least relative interest, and there would be the desire to shift from one tutor to another. Meanwhile, it should be remembered that, according to the Faculty directive, sophomore tutorial must be centered in the House. And though it might be possible, in the department...
Japan's Crown Prince was twelve years old when his American tutor, Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining, called him Jimmy. The lesson learned that day seemed very much with Akihito last week as he journeyed across the Pacific on his way to the coronation in London. Now 19, diminutive (5 ft. 4 in. 114 Ibs.) and dignified (when protocol demanded), the Prince, aboard the President Wilson, shook off his six chamberlains, mingled easily with fellow passengers, dined at the captain's table, ate American dishes, held a Martini at cocktail parties (but was not seen to drink it), played...
...guarding Madelein, the daughter of an old friend, from all male advances, including his own. Having loved Madeleine's mother, the producer sees his lost love in the winsome daughter, and gradually cases himself off the forbidden list in the young girl's life. When Jacques, armed with his tutor's advice, first meets Madeleine, the picture becomes a Limelight dished up with a light Gallic sauce...
...will probably make the reading material cut across area lines. Further improvements might standardize frequency of meetings and number in the group. Four of five men meeting two hours every other week is the overwhelmingly popular combination. Also, whenever possible, those in a particular area might be assigned a tutor with the same interest...