Word: tutors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Great Awakening in volunteer hospital work has been so abrupt. Both the General and Mental Hospital Programs have sprung to life since September, 1954. Perhaps the most valid explanation for the resurgence of interest comes from Roger W. Brown, assistant professor of Social Psychology and Social Relations head tutor...
...century, when American letters were still strongly influenced by the Genteel outlook, Owen Wister of Virginian fame wrote a short novel entitled Philosophy 4. In this work two fair-haired, hearty, fun-loving, all-American boys, Bertie and Billy, are contrasted to their supercilious, swarthy, second-generation-American tutor, Oscar Maironi. Bertie and Billy are well-rounded, while Oscar is a grind. The story centers around preparation for a final exam in Harvard's Philosophy 4. Bertie and Billy pay Oscar to tutor them in the course material, because with playing tennis, taking carriage rides, and learning...
...this way during his college career, but otherwise there is very little restriction or supervision. The Committee on Advanced Standing has approved almost all course reduction applications that a student's Department has recommended, and it leaves any supervision of the applicant's advanced work to his own tutor. There are no marks, and often no papers or reports, either. Theoretically, any junior or senior honors candidate can qualify for course reduction; in practice, however, a Department will hesitate to recommend a student who is not in Groups...
Miles combines the duties of Dean of Special Students and Counsellor of Foreign Students. He is also Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Dunster House and a lecturer in Government. His assistant in the Special Student office is Miss Phyllis Henry, who, according to Miles, "knows everything about our problems here." Before 1916, any students who were not working toward degrees were handled by the college, but since then, and especially since World War II, increased enrollment of foreign students has increased the importance of the office...
With the war over, Gilmore doffed his Lieutenant- Commander's uniform and once again began to combine dark suits with his characteristic loafers. As Senior Tutor in Lowell House until 1950, he resumed his interest in sports, and played squash for the House team. Even today students often speak to him informally in the swimming pool shower room at the Indoor Athletic Building. It was at Lowell, too, that he became a firm friend of Master Eliott Perkins...