Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This week tutoring projects, variously combining slum children of many scholastic shortcomings with tutors ranging in age up to young housewives, are in full cry everywhere from Boston's Chestnut Hill to North western University to San Francisco. Cleveland's "Summer '64 Tutor Corps" is probably the nation's most effective application of the idea. There 535 high school students are tutoring without pay in 62 locations around the city. More than half of the tutors (average age: 17) are girls, and each tutor works about 15 hours a week under paid supervisors from Cleveland...
...East End Neighborhood House, where 14 pupils sit down at small tables around a large room, the atmosphere is casual but quiet. Each tutor has developed her own teaching methods. At one table a white boy and a Negro girl, with a tutor, play a game of homonyms, thinking up and writing down such words as "knew and new," "won and one," "two and too." At another table a tutor helps a boy with flash cards to increase his word-recognition speed...
...partnership and a Westminster Abbey wedding with the boss's daughter (Millicent Martin), he hires an aging, aristocratic wastrel (Denholm Elliott) to guide him through a whirlwind curriculum of fashionable prejudices. "Say 'bloody' a lot," counsels Elliott. "Know a few dirty jokes about the Caesars." When tutor and pupil take aim at the Establishment in a series of daft vignettes-playing squash, touring Cambridge, or off on a jolly shoot-Nothing but the Best looks and sounds like superlative satire...
...railway engineer; his mother had a taste for culture. Shy, moody, frail, Owen began writing melancholy, softly sensuous verse in his teens, dealing generally with "golden gardens and sweet glooms." Since his family did not have the money to send him to college, he went to France as a tutor. While there, war broke out. Owen had no desire to get involved. He wrote his mother: "I feel my own life all the more precious and dear in the presence of this deflowering of Europe...
...appalling. He was not allowed to mix or play with other boys. He was given six hours of instruction by several private instructors six days a week, followed by an hour of calisthenics under the eye of a drill sergeant. To ensure that nothing went wrong, his principal tutor arranged that "Her Majesty and His Royal Highness Prince Albert have, laid before them at the end of every day, a report on the conduct of the Princes and their employment from hour to hour...