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Word: tutors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there, at least at the beginning. And with a tutor like Ron, maybe I'll go the distance. And if I do, Miss Witzman's husband had better look...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Boxing at Harvard: An Idea Whose Time Has Come? | 1/17/1979 | See Source »

Officials at Walpole Prison are refusing to allow student volunteers from Phillip Brooks House (PBH) to tutor prisoners since the closing of a section of the prison to outsiders following the November 15 murder of an inmate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Walpole Prison Shutdown Halts PBH Volunteer Tutoring Work | 12/7/1978 | See Source »

...yesterday the maximum security block of Walpole is closed to all outsiders and 168 inmates are locked in their cells for all but about 15 minutes a day. Because the purpose of the lock-up is to cut down on violence by isolating the men, the 22 volunteers who tutor in the closed section are not allowed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Walpole Prison Shutdown Halts PBH Volunteer Tutoring Work | 12/7/1978 | See Source »

With the advent of the SAT, Kaplan found his work load too much to handle individually. Word-of-mouth advertising about the feisty tutor had spread to Queens and manhattan. He opened a permanent center in Brooklyn to handle the load, and rented places in the other boroughs in which to teach. His metropolitan area business continued to snowball as he became better known and the standardized tests more important...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Horatio Alger, With Chutzpah | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...LSAT score makes the difference with so many of our candidates to the top schools," a Harvard pre-law tutor said. "There's no doubt it's a numbers game--GPA (grade point average) and LSATs are the whole ballgame Everybody's got extracurriculars, and the 'diversity' schools mention in their catalogues are too often code words for minority applicants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Is There a Difference? | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

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