Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very happy to be here," said Davis, who assumed his new duties July 1. Davis said he will live in Dunster House, but will have no formal responsibilities as tutor...
About week ago she went out for drinks with her sophomore year History and Literature tutor and the three women who were in the class with her. One of the women had won a Rotary fellowship, the second had one a Marshall scholarship, and the third was going to Yale Law School. Then she told them she was going to Chicago to act. "It sounds much more amorphous," Gasser understates. "I think if you were really realistic about it and looked at the big picture, it would be too frightening." In Chicago she is going to try to teach acting...
...University has appointed a chairman, Oxford scholar Olwen Hufton--to whom they offered tenure last summer--and a head tutor, Soyna Michel. Five of the 12 students in the program are full concentrators and the other seven are joint majors. According to administrators, the concentration is negotiating for a new home...
Takemi Ueno's junior-year tutor in History and Literature, graduate student Leslie Choquette '78, tells an interesting story about their initial meeting in September 1985. Having assigned French historian Georges LeFebrve's 600-plus page biography of Napoleon as the first week's reading, Choquette fully expected Ueno to arrive shell-shocked, as had all of her previous tutees. Not so Ueno. Although the modus vivendi of the assignment had been to encourage students "to learn how to skim, to pick and choose," Ueno walked into tutorial, obviously having read and absorbed the entire work, and inquired...
...Tutor Choquette, however, remarks that it is precisely Ueno's "fund of knowledge and interests, [spanning] an enormous range" that make her distinctive as an academic...