Word: tutors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Class over and lunch with friend in Lowell House, cigarette before and after dessert and during coffee. Too many cigarettes, have to get back to pack-a-day. Tutor at two, thesis subject not yet selected, think it will be Fenimore Cooper, haven't got it exactly. Assignment for next week Miracle Plays. Should have done them sophomore year. The Vagabond has a field of concentration but he consistently ignores...
...wheel of this unique U. S. preparatory school was its Headmaster William McDonnell Pond. A blond, sturdy, fortyish Harvardman, until three years ago Headmaster Pond ran the Pond School in Cambridge, Mass, to tutor boys for Harvard. He and his wife Augusta May both liked to sail, used to take Pond pupils for weekend cruises aboard their small schooner, Gulmare, once asked a boatload of them if they would like to work aboard for a full week. They did, liked it so well that they asked their parents for enough money to sail down the Maine coast. When all returned...
With the opening of all the new Houses in 1931, there was a general feeling that with the new community life planned, and with approximately 250 students living in a House presided over by a Master and Senior Tutor, it would be desirable if possible to do away with the chaperon and have a more informal basis for reception of women guests in the Houses. Therefore at a meeting of the Masters in the fall of 1931, it was decided that the old regulation should remain in force in the Yard and college supervised rooming houses, but that...
Although there was no formal vote by the Masters, there was a general understanding that if written permission of the Master of Senior Tutor was secured, students might entertain ladies in their rooms without a chaperon, provided that the party always consisted of three or more. In other words the general understanding was that the written permission would generally be granted only on Saturday, Sunday or "Open House" occasions during dances...
Elliot Perkins, Lowell House tutor, as faculty adviser of the organization, declared that he did not consider himself a "bulwark" between the club and the dean's office but that he was glad to do what he could about getting rid of the Roosevelt administration...