Word: tutors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bright lad, Tom dreamed of a brighter future than tending bar, and his schoolmasters wanted him to try for a scholarship at Oxford. When Publican Florey put his foot down on such nonsense Tom moped at home, revolved methods of escape. When the offer of a post as tutor in a German family opened the door, Tom was out like a flash. He got along famously with his employer, a distinguished Nobel Prizewinning author and his queer menage, fell in love with Undine, a visiting cousin from the U. S. When he let himself be seduced by the luscious secretary...
...Author- Called Sweden's foremost explorer, "the modern Marco Polo," Dr. Sven Anders Hedin got his start 49 years ago as tutor with a family in Baku on the Caspian, has been prowling Central Asia almost continuously ever since. Expert hydrographer and cartographer, he carries only the simplest instruments on his expeditions, depends largely on the measured stride of his riding camel for computing distances. For Chicago's Century of Progress he directed the reproduction of Jehol's "Golden Pavilion." Short, bland, unmarried and 69, Explorer Hedin is now completing a railroad survey for China...
...George C. S. Benson, instructor in Government and Lowell House head tutor, will become managing editor of the magazine "State Government" next fall. He is leaving Harvard to take a position as research consultant to the American Legislators' Association...
Robert King Merton, 3G., of Philadelphia, Pa., to be an assistant in Sociology and tutor in the Division of Sociology 1934-35. A.M. Harvard...
Emile Benoit Smullyan, '32, of New York, N. Y., to be an assistant in Sociology and tutor in the Department of Sociology 1934-35. A.M. Harvard...