Word: tutors
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This is not a passing disturbance on the part of a few tenants; we are a large group threatened with survival as residents of the Cambridge area." Ron Slaby, a BGTA member and a Currier House tutor, said Sunday
...wrote speeches for both Adlai Stevenson's presidential campaign and served as ambassador to India under President Kennedy (a resident of Winthrop House in the 1930s, when Galbraith was a tutor there). Not surprisingly, a life of this variety yields a wealth of anecdotes and portraits told in his characteristicly elegant manner. Galbraith's insights into the characters of the famous men of the era are few, but he profiles several lesser-known individuals to delightful effect. Henry Dennison, a maverick New England business mogul of the 1930s and Leon Henderson, Galbraith's Hemmingwayesque superior at the OPA stand...
...when the House became one of the first to go co-ed. Attracted by the 2-to-1 male to female ratio in a day when the River Houses had 6-to-1 ratios, more than 300 men signed up to move in, George Smith, a former senior tutor, said...
Although participants noted a large decrease in student activism on global issues from the early '70s, they described a rise in concern with local issues. "House committee used to run on bribes of milk and cookies." Michael R. Moynihan, a Currier tutor from 1974 to 1980, said, adding. "Now it uns as a town meeting...
Stephen Urice, executive assistant to Dunn and a resident tutor in Fine Arts, praised Cosindas as the "best in the country" in her field before the presentation ceremony...