Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nature was Bonnard's intimate tutor, but no vain one; he never held a mirror up to her. What he strove for and kept reaching for was the evanescent sense of revelation in nature-tremulous and transient as a rainbow...
...guests in the outer garden of the shrine, including 37 former peers, Premier Kishi and his Cabinet, a Nobel Prizewinning physicist, the farmer who last year grew the most rice per acre, and only one foreigner-Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining, the American Quaker who was the prince's tutor from...
Four hundred and fifty students from 41 Massachusetts high schools will converge on Memorial Hall today for a mock United Nations Assembly sponsored by the Harvard United Nations Council. Paul E. Sigmund, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Quincy House, will preside over the General Assembly this afternoon...
...resistless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning." It is difficult to do this in a lecture course; the Faculty has wisely realized that the best opportunity for awakening such a drive is in the close, personal contact between student and tutor found in a tutorial session, where the student is forced to think perceptively. But the Faculty has been curiously lax in extending the opportunity for such thinking to the non-Honors student, the one who is perhaps in greatest need of the awakening of what the President calls a "resistless drive...
...increased awareness of the problem, on the part of everyone at Harvard, and the awareness of his relationship to the Harvard community. The student is not just an independent thinker, cut off from all about him; by choosing to study at Harvard rather than with a private tutor at home, he commits himself to participation in the College community. This includes the commitment to provide for as adequate representation of students to the administration as possible, so that steps may be taken to improve the college and the curriculum with the student in mind. It includes the commitment of those...