Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There's something especially nice about the choice of Winthrop House's new senior tutor--nice because the House derives its name from John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony three centuries ago, and because this fact is so often overlooked. But no more. Benjamin W. Labaree, the new senior tutor, is that rare individual--a teacher of colonial history; and even more unlikely, his father teaches in the same field...
Harris also stated that an occasional meeting might be helpful, but that "there is the danger tha these meetings might degenerate into cram sessions for the general examinations." However, Harris conceded that an experienced tutor would probably be able to make it a beneficial experience...
Dudley House Funds will again be used for a summer study scholarship and for concentration dinners, acting Allston Burr Senior Tutor Alexander Welsh '54 predicted, although plans are not yet final. Winthrop, Eliot and Dunster Houses have not yet decided how to use their Ford grants. Leverett House will discuss application of its funds tomorrow...
...more to the Summer School than the nightly collection of hungry males ogling the windows of female - filled Wiggles-worth, the sight of a bare nail-polished foot extended upon a chair during a final exam, and the overly friendly girls who ask a young man whether he "would tutor me in this course because I just have no idea of what's going on." This summer saw an unusually large number of renowned professors among the School's faculty: Allen Tate, C. Northcote Parkinson, Angus Taylor, Harold Schmidt, and many others. On a poll distributed by the Summer News...
...notorious Humbert Humbert, Lolita's nymphet-chasing hero. In the story, the narrator is smitten by a cute little nymphetease on the beach at Biarritz-but it is only a poignant little saga of puppy love quickly brought to an end by the boy's tutor. Nabokov's Dozen lacks Lolita's pun-prone pyrotechnics. But it shares with it Nabokov's fascinating gift for translating the machine-tooled commonplaces of U.S. life into a surreal landscape of fantasy, a kind of Poe-like, gadget-haunted region of Weir. Thus a soda-fountain stool violently...