Word: tutoring
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Possible innovations include group concentration meetings and individual meetings with department faculty members. Dunster House Senior Tutor Jeffrey Wolcowitz, who made the proposals, said such meetings could help students become more comfortable with their concentrations at the beginning of sophomore year...
Students nominate candidates for the prize, which will be awarded this spring. Then the nominees will be evaluated by the department's Undergraduate Affairs Commitee (UAC), a group comprised of one concentrator from each of the houses, Head Tutor Mark Peterson, assistant professor of government and several members from the department's Board of Tutors...
According to Alan Levine, assistant head tutor of government, Putnam created the award when he "noticed that a lot of thing were rewarded in the department but not teaching." Peterson said dissertation prizes and research fellowships have been available for years but until now "teaching has had no form of formal recognition...
Laura said she will eventually have a tutor, but for now she is homework-free. Even so, she said she misses school. "When I'm in school sometimes I wish I was sick so I wouldn't have to be there. But when I'm in the hospital getting poked, I wish I was at school with all my friends," she said...
...assigned himself an absurdist British comedy, N.F. Simpson's One Way Pendulum; a Jacobean tragedy, Bussy D'Ambois; a Leonard Bernstein musical, Candide, which Miller says "will have more flavor of the original Voltaire"; and Shakespeare's The Tempest. Also on the roster are Reinhold Lenz's The Tutor, adapted by Brecht, and Alexander Ostrovsky's 19th century Russian comedy Too Clever By Half. "I want to break out of the stale convection current that keeps endlessly recirculating the same old Shaw and Chekhov," says Miller. "We are part of Europe, and there are vast expanses of European literature unknown...