Word: tutors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind Gretchen Merrill's victory were seven years of hard work. A perfectionist, emulating the career of her childhood heroine and present tutor, nine-time national champion Maribel Vinson, Miss Merrill has led a Spartan life during skating seasons. She goes to bed at 7 o'clock so she can be up at 6:30 for practice before school; diets on steak, spinach and milk to keep herself in shape. Her free-skating routines she maps out on paper and tries out at home in her stocking feet, taking her split jumps over a sofa...
Last month, while in California training under Tutor Vinson, Gretchen was asked to give a skating exhibition at an Army air base. "They gave me six encores," she recalls. "And I didn't have a sixth encore planned so I went to the microphone and said 'What will it be, boys?' They all shouted 'The Strip Polka.' Well, I asked for it. The music started and I made it up as I went along. The boys kept shouting at the right places. When they yelled 'Take it off! Take it off!' I lifted...
Anthony Eden's visit to America is a political, rather than a military mission, and probably has to do with the establishment of a post-war world, according to David E. Owen, associate professor of History, and tutor in the department of History...
...peered into the dark mail box just out of habit. "Never any on Sunday," he murmured as be bumped into a middle-aged tutor on his way upstairs. He flung open the door of Bob's room, but the "hello" died on his lips as the unexpected darkness blinded him. He stumbled against a hard wood chair where there shouldn't have been one and flicked the light switch...
...late twenties, during the rise of the tutorial system the University dropped much of its former severity on class attendance, believing that time spent with a tutor might be more profitable than the attendance of a routine lecture. Now, tutorial is conducted more like a class than an individual conference and those few tutors who are left are rapidly disappearing into war work or the armed forces themselves. The second reason, paradoxically enough, is more directly bound up with the students' welfare. If an undergraduate has not attended a course regularly up to the time of his abrupt departure...