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...entered high school in Macon, Georgia. Nine years later, she returned home armed with a degree in English literature from Wellesley College, the vestiges of a Southern drawl and so little Chinese that she had to be re-educated in her native tongue by a tutor. ("The only thing Oriental about me," she once wrote, "is my face.") In the early 1920s, she was a flower of Shanghai's intellectual community when she caught the eye of Chiang Kai-shek. He was then chairman of the Supreme National Defense Council. Neither minded that he already had a childhood bride...
Luis A. Campos ’99, a former Klappermeister, or bell-ringer, and a resident tutor in Lowell, said he had been looking forward to learning more about the bells’ history—and possibly picking up a few pointers on ringing from the monks...
...students who wish to throw room parties would be a highly effective way to reach older students who are likely to expose themselves and others to alcohol. Currently upperclass students who wish to throw a party must only fill out a short form and speak briefly with their resident tutor. The Center for Alcohol should sponsor training sessions in each House at the beginning of the year that are required for all potential party throwers—detailing ways to improve safety at parties, from the type and quantity of alcohol served to what to do if a student gets...
...There’s a faintly cynical kind of smile behind [the paintings],” says VES Head Tutor Paul Stopforth. He remarks on their “undercurrent of sinister cynicism” that seem to mock the narcissism of early 20th century Surrealists...
Last week, Stephen B. Cranston ’06 found himself living a Justice essay question, when he arrived in the room of his new Math 21a tutor only to find his Lazy-Boy recliner, which had been stolen from Leverett House storage, adorning the common room. Cranston, however, quickly resolved the moral quandary over whether stealing back one’s own stolen stuff is in fact stealing when his tutor hopped into the Lazy-Boy and then proceeded to demonstrate its seven reclining positions for him. Cranston seized the moment when his tutor stepped away for a bathroom...