Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dozen resident tutors a year must leave the Houses because they get married. Yearly they go through the inconvenience of finding another apartment and yearly the Masters go out and look for replacements. The necessity to leave involves more than inconvenience. The tutor who leaves after a year or so has only begun to attain the familiarity with the House's students and their problems that was to make his living there worthwhile. The fact that he has had to leave certainly discourages the good men who, although planning to marry, would like to become tutors...
...operation is costly, but has been accomplished in a number of freshman Halls and in two or three rooms in the older Houses. The University administration would clearly like to encourage more accommodations for the married. The two most recent Houses, Quincy and Leverett, provide as many married tutor apartments as the rest of the Houses combined. Yet the Masters of the old Houses have not as yet seen fit to list such room deconversions among their pressing needs...
When several history tutors in Winthrop House began talking last Spring about changing the Department's honors program and tutorial, they found they were discontented for different reasons. One faction wanted to make the honors program smaller and more selective by weeding out those seniors who had little to gain from writing a thesis. Since the Gill Plan was passed by the Faculty in 1961, loosening requirements for honors, the number of honors candidates in History had climbed upward sharply. The year before the Gill Plan went into effect, 53 per cent of History seniors were admitted to the honors...
...world has both favored and feared the philosophers' answers. Thomas Aquinas became a saint, Aristotle was tutor to Alexander the Great, and Voltaire was a confidant of kings. But Socrates was put to death, and Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake. Nowadays, Historian Will Durant has noted, no one would think of doing that-"not because men are more delicate about killing, but because there is no need to kill that which is already dead...
Strausz-Hupé came to the U.S. as a tutor-guardian to a no-good Salzburg aristocrat who was older than himself, worked in the art department of Marshall Field's in Chicago (landscapes and jolly monks), as a runner in Wall Street (with social weekends on Long Island), finally as a customer's man and-after a return to Europe-as an investment banker. This could have been a simple immigrant's success story. But Strausz-Hupé, however frivolous his youth, had retained the gravitas of a European education. He met Historian Oswald Spengler only...