Word: tutoring
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Thomas F. McGann, Instructor in History and tutor at Kirkland House, has a face which is hard to forget. His placid expression, underlined by a black mustache gives him the appearance of a benign dictator. Having spent several years in Argentina before and during Person's regime, McGann might give the impression that he would in the role to a T. Yet most of his friends know him as "Uncle Tom." Perhaps it's because he likes to run sessions like a high level cocktail party-often in a student's room-with the waft of sherry...
...Acting Senior Tutor of Dunster House did not assume office--he was carried in feet first. A group of students picked him up, bore him into his official residence, and deposited him on the vestibule with a loud bump. Since then, Dunster men have overrun his place, arranging his furniture, and drinking his excellent sherry. And although Carroll F. "Stan" Miles is heard to complain that his comfortable quarters have become a Central Terminal, everybody knows he loves...
Miles is inherently gregarious. At Dunster but four months, he is already the House's favorite son candidate for the Presidency of the University ("A case of the office seeking the man," he confesses blandly). As the new Senior Tutor, his down-to-earth approach seems certain to divest deanery of much of its stuffiness...
...well vegetate a good deal longer. Miles has wrapped himself in his Senior Tutor job, which calls on both his administrational and social skills. Some wonder how Miles will be able to discipline his student companions, but they forget that friendship leads to cooperation which often makes discipline unneeded. And it Miles can operate deanery this way, he will go far toward being the kind of Senior Tutor the Bender Report desired. MUTON S. GWIRTZMAN
Starting next fall, the Social Relations department will combine two of its four fields of specialization and inaugurate a new system of course classification, Head Tutor Joseph A. Kahl announced yesterday...