Word: tutors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lowell House diners will have to continue wearing coats in the dining hall despite their petition asking for relief from these "sweltering summer days," Maurice M. Pechet, Acting Senior Tutor in the House, declared last night...
Next fall, as a reluctant concession to the Ministry of Education, Eton will admit two state-supported boys - but only as an "experiment." Says Eton's 74-year-old Provost Sir Henry Marten, who was Princess Elizabeth's private tutor in history: "We English are very slow, and we never rush into anything...
...School Certificate (university entrance credits), by 16. In the student days of Shelley, Gray, Swinburne and Fielding, both Latin and Greek were compulsory; today most still study Latin, about half Greek. Etonians spend their last two years at Eton specializing in some favorite subject (e.g., history, science) under a tutor's guidance, go as fast as they like. Eton's educational reputation: tops. Eton's educational secret: "We give the boys time to educate themselves...
Advice to the Victim. On the way to Japan, on the U.S. Education Mission, Stoddard kept insisting to his colleagues that the Emperor ought to be hanged or at least jailed. But in Tokyo, he found himself recommending to his unsuspecting "victim" the right U.S. woman tutor (Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining) for the Crown Prince. And he also helped draft democratic reforms for Japanese education: popularly elected school boards, a simplified alphabet,wider public schooling...
Returning to the University, where he had been influenced further by the literary-classic trio of "Kitty," "Copey," and Bliss, Professor Whiting immersed himself in graduate work. He became an assistant and Tutor in English and attained the rank of full professor last December. The author of numerous books on Chaucer, his specialty, and dissertations on the proverb as an expression of folk thought, Professor Whiting looks on his lone venture in anthology work with horror. "I'll never do anything like that again," he says of his co-editorship of the College Survey of English Literature, which includes most...