Word: tutors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Donald Barfield, assistant senior tutor in Adams House and also a member of the committee said yesterday, "We've got to get an idea of where the chairs are in the room before we can move them around...
LeBoutillier's Harvard is a frightful place, inhabited by the likes of --God forbid--Charles Warren Professor of History Frank Freidel, that "liberal" who dared to interject a personal opinion about welfare into a lecture on FDR. The author is outraged. He is also surrounded. His sophomore history tutor, he says, is a Marxist. The tutor is quoted as uttering such realistic phrases as: "Jesus, how heavy, how heavy, how incredibly relevant and heavy," and, better tailored to LeBoutillier's needs: "America the Beautiful my ass. It should be America the home of fascism...
Like all of LeBoutillier's radicals, the tutor is a hypocrite: he wears Bass Weejuns and has a rich wife. Martin Peretz, now editor of the New Republic, is cast in much the same light--as a rabid McGovern supporter who also happens to be wealthy. "I had to laugh out loud at the irony of the situation," the author writes. In truth, of course, Peretz never supported McGovern, but that is almost beside the point. The Dick and Jane analysis would be pathetic by any standard...
Burkhardt said she discussed the issue with Laura Gordon Fisher, senior tutor in Eliot House, and with Joseph H. Yeager '79, one of the organizers of the Constitutional Convention. They decided to delete Monaghan's name from the ballot and to reschedule elections for Thursday and Friday, she said...
...acceptance to our neighbors, we may find a little more room to be ourselves. We may find greater openness, greater freedom and greater self-expression--and find ourselves even more enriched by our acceptance than those friends and associates to whom we extend our warmth and support. Peter Patch Tutor in Economics