Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...houses, they tell us, have a purpose, which is not without its threatening aspect. They are a "community of learning." Durn tootin'. It's their sneaky way of packing the tutors and other helpful types in so close you can't breathe. The teacher-student ratio around here is 1 to 7, and the way to milk the most out of the ratio is to stack tutors and students in the same entries, like wildcats in a laundry bag. People think I run up and down stairs because I'm busy. Busy, hell. My tutor lives between...
Consequently, close student-faculty friendships are formed and the ultimate--informal--result is that one student can periodically test a Government tutor--on a mutual first-name basis--to see who knows the names of the most Senators. Another student can get breakfast in bed, served by his tutor, after winning a football...
...most memorable illustrations came at a party last fall, following the Yale game. Carroll F. (Stan) Miles, Dunster senior tutor, was engaged in a lengthy defense of St. Thomas when he was suddenly interrupted by raucous Eli taunts from outside. Retaliation was swift and sure. Miles bolted for the door, threw the first snowball,--and connected...
...meanwhile Beer explained the tutorial system to Silverstein, with Goldings adding a word or two--including the fact that Beer was not his regular tutor ("Louis Hartz is") and that normally he did not have individual tutorial...
Finally the set was ready. Silverstein asked the tutor and tutee to move to the easy chairs. Beer sat down for a moment, but then objected more vehemently than before. "I don't like these easy chairs. I'd rather have a hard chair...