Word: tutors
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Equally important as her academic qualifications is her energetic commitment to undergraduate education and life at Harvard. Kearns was a resident tutor in Dunster House during the 1969 strike. This was a particularly difficult time to be a tutor because of the important role the houses played in organizing the strike. Roger Rosenblatt, former Dunster House Master and present editor of the New Republic praised Kearns for her devotion to students in a time of crisis...
Whether dealing with federal or Harvard bureaucrats, Mayer seems to have a flair for getting what he wants done. "He's very forceful and gets other people to do their best for him," said John R. Marquand, rotund and affable senior tutor at Dudley House. "He's not inclined to give in to bureaucratic opposition...
...turnmoil. He has not witnessed "avarice," he says, and the term "preprofessional scramble" is just too imprecise. Even the carrot and the stick, he says, are a gift of a friend to commemorate an article--on public policy. Fisher's is the attitude that has prompted one House tutor to comment of the office of career service, "What used to be a ruthless preprofessional machine is now the last haven of middle-aged hippiedom...
Continuing his crackdown on student-tutor cohabitation, William R. Hutchison, master of Winthrop House, orders Buildings and Ground to reverse the peepholes in all suite doors...
...wide. Of course, there was no widespread, relatively uniform public school system. In the rural areas and on the frontier, children were apprenticed early or simply worked alongside their parents at farming or housekeeping. Most city children in the North went to schools-but for varying lengths of time. Tutors were often an alternative in the South where distances between plantations made public schools impractical. Private schools were founded to serve the interests of those who wanted their children taught intensively and maybe with a particular religious point of view. In New England, parents had several options: keep the child...