Word: tutors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Copey, as he was soon known, became friendly with undergraduates of all sorts. His "open house on Wednesday evening after ten" became the forum of the College where Chaucer might rub elbows with Yale's star half in the discussion. And always, after a little urging, the golden-voiced tutor would read his favorite passages from the Bible, from Kipling, from the classics. The "Copeland Reader," an anthology of these favorites, is the most typical of Copey's books; for he never intended to be a profound scholar, a footnote machine. Copey only wanted to become a good teacher...
Term-time earnings were $135,782.57, and summer vacation earnings were &85,187.87. Largest earnings in the summer were received by tutor-companions, camp councillors, and hotel workers...
Seymour E. Harris, associate professor of Economics and head tutor of Dunster House will serve as Acting Housemaster during the second half-year, Clarence H. Haring, regular Housemaster, announced yesterday...
That rounds out the Harvard coaching staff for the present, but very soon there may be another vacacy to fill. Skip Stahley, Dick Harlow's backfield tutor, has the inside track on the Brown coaching job vacated by Tuss McLaughry earlier this week. Stahley has been waiting for a suitable head coaching offer for a year. If he leaves this winter, the announcement will be made soon because Harvard authorities will need time to shop around for a new backfield coach...
This is not a substitute for meeting with the tutor individually, but a valuable supplement. Besides giving the student the benefit of criticism from many different viewpoints, it shows him more of what the Department is doing as a whole and acquaints him with problems common to all theses. Its possibilities are much greater than those of contact between student and tutor alone. If there are any maladjustments in the relationship between tutor and student, they may be magnified if they are shut away from others who are working along the same lines...