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Word: tutoring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ease interhouse restrictions. The poll showed 65 per cent of the students responding wanted interhouse at both lunch and dinner. Committee chairman Howard J. Phillips '62 said congestion Monday-Wednesday-Friday at 1 p.m., student-tutor ratios, and discrepancies in Houses' popularities are listed as reasons for keeping interhouse only at the dinner meal...

Author: By Thomas M. Pepper, | Title: Tucker Opposes Uniform Menus For Dining Halls | 10/14/1959 | See Source »

...much of the press and student activity inside the Festival. Financed by the private contributions of prominent citizens, the Service has the support of national leaders such as Senator Humphrey. Gloria Steinam and Leonard Bebchick were co-chairmen, and Paul E. Sigmund of the Harvard Government Department, and Senior Tutor of Quincy House, provided overall guidance...

Author: By Cliff F. Thompson, | Title: Vienna Festival Chants 'Peace, Friendship' | 10/14/1959 | See Source »

Some of the episodes are clearly autobiographical. Like Serezha, for instance, Author Pasternak was once a tutor in the home of a well-to-do merchant. As a tutor, Serezha is plagued less by his duties than by the drives of his own masculinity. He has tortured Platonic talkfests with Anna Arild, companion to the mistress of the house; Anna is a strait-laced Danish widow who interprets Serezha's every comment as a prelude to seduction. Finally, sexual tension drives him into the arms of the town prostitute, a "hoarse beauty" of an earthiness so casual that, "while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Early Pasternak | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...Love for Teacher. Ben Barka himself insists that he fully supports popular King Mohammed ("Morocco is indeed fortunate to have such an enlightened King"). And early in his career he was in high enough favor with the King to be appointed tutor to Crown Prince Moulay Hassan. But there is bad blood between Ben Barka and his former pupil, who has sided openly with Istiqlal's right wing in the current political dispute. And as commander in chief of the army, Moulay Hassan has troops to back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOROCCO: The Challenger | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...ominous prophetic warning. The passers-by either smirk or ignore her or shake their heads: the last thing any Harvard or Radcliffe undergraduate expects to do on the public streets or elsewhere is to meet his God--at least in any literal sense, as he might meet his tutor, say, or President Pusey...

Author: By Friedrich Nietzsche, | Title: The Religion of Unbelief: Ethics Without God | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

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