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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Owner P. K. Wrigley of the Cubs -still hopeful of getting some return on his quarter-of-a-million-dollar investment -sent Dean back to the Texas League un der option (subject to 24-hour recall) and sent a personal tutor along to give him pointers on sidearm pitching. But few fans expect ever again to see Wrigley's white elephant in a Cub uniform...
...King of a nation containing two racial groups, Leopold considered himself as much a Fleming as a Walloon. The nationalist Flemish writer, Herman Teirlinck, taught him the Flemish language, later became one of his closest friends and the tutor of his children. But the most significant influence on his policies was wielded by General Van Overstraeten, the brilliant, energetic, overbearing military tutor who became his chief military adviser. General Van Overstraeten did his best to dislodge pro-Ally War Minister General Henri Denis, succeeded only in getting rid of Chief-of-Staff General E. Van den Bergen. Younger Belgian Army...
Last fall, two of the crammers (the University Tutoring School and Fletcher Briggs) gave up the ghost. Early in May the College Tutoring Bureau followed suit. Still busy, however, were the two biggest tutoring schools. Wolff's and Parker-Cramer. Last fortnight, Harvard's Dean A. Chester Hanford socked them in the solar plexus. Any student who attended a commercial tutoring school, he announced, would be "liable to disciplinary action." Harold A. Wolff, proprietor of the biggest school, promptly announced that his school would give up tutoring, would restrict itself to "educational counseling" of students "who have done...
Music 1 this year has solved the problem admirably. By appointing a graduate student, not connected with the course, to give reviews it has avoided the usual pitfalls. This tutor, not knowing the contents of the exam, has been able to stress without compunction what he considers to be the high points of the course...
Next question for Dr. Fabing: Could a 23-year-old brain, which had not been used for 17 years, respond to education? He sent Eugene last January to live with Psychologist Doris Twitchell Allen, hired as tutor Mrs. Richard B. Freeman...