Word: tutors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professor Perry Miller, who delights in refuting this myth, remembers when Schlesinger was "a shy little sophomore drama critic taking orders from seniors on the Advocate." Miller tutored Schlesinger when he wrote his summa thesis on the radical Jacksonian reformer Orestes Brownson, but "I was really only a nominal tutor," Miller says, "since Arthur's first drafts seldom needed any revision." The thesis was published as a book shortly after his graduation. "If you plan to write a book, college is the best time," according to Schlesinger. "You'll never again have so much free time or be so innocent...
Landis) commands her to dance with the tutor to make the prince jealous. The princess is aghast. "I would have sent for a duke from Vienna," her mother apologizes, "but there was no time . . . You'll wear gloves, of course, darling-long ones." Even with gloves, the tutor is too hot to handle. He sets the princess on fire, and by the time the blaze is finally under control, the rest of the flimsy plot has gone pleasantly up in smoke...
...lack of life, on a nourishing Russian landowner's estate. The landowner's wife, Natalia, with her bright, trivial, citified mind and self-indulgent nature, is bored by her husband, and more entertained than aroused by her sophisticated neighbor. When her son acquires an attractive young tutor, she half tumbles, half pushes herself into love. Discovering that her young ward is also drawn to the tutor, Natalia jealously tries to marry her off elsewhere. Though all this gives the heartfree tutor's ego a great lift, matters get fairly strenuous for him, and he finds it simplest...
...building of new Commuters' Center. If commuters were given a library which could hold more than sixteen tightly packed people, a dining hall looking less like Hayes-Bickford, and bunk-room large enough to accomodate the finals rush, commuters might find their center almost enviable. With their tutors in the same building, rather than a block away, their center would also seem more like a house. An additional bit of prestige might also be added by giving the commuters a housemaster, as well as a senior tutor. And most important, with a new, aesthetically pleasing Georgian building, commuters would have...
Cheever, a member of the Faculty since 1947, is Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Winthrop House. Before his appointment as lecturer in 1953, he served as assistant professor and tutor in Government...