Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...palace in Peking and a pension of 4,000,000 taels per year. Feng brushed this contract aside, ousted the Boy Emperor from his palace, and gave that young man such good reason to suspect that he would be murdered that, with the aid of his British tutor, Mr. R. F. Johnston, he escaped the guard set over him by Feng, fled to the Japanese concession at Tientsin and still resides there as "Mr. Henry...
...divisional examinations should be largely oral, thus giving a fairer test. Many more good tutors are needed to make the Tutorial System a real success. At present there is not time for the student to get the most out of the Tutorial System, because of the regular course requirements. Tutorial work should take the place of course works and credits be given for the same. The tutor's report should be considered in granting degrees. Perhaps only 12 or even fewer courses should be required. Seniors could then be free to actually gain the most the Tutorial System...
...realized all its potentialities. Sometimes the adviser, in spite of comprehensive reference sheets sent him from University Hall, is insufficiently informed. More than a little difficulty lies in the overlapping duties of the adviser, who may be also a section man in Harvard, a lecturer in Radcliffe, a tutor or a graduate student. Interviews more distinguished for epigrammatic than informative quality are the result...
...article "Drifters" by Freeman Lewis must cause even the most casual reader to pause for a moment and think. Mr. Lewis has a very interesting idea, apparently instilled into him by his tutor, which he presents somewhat vaguely. But the article is more than worth the time consumed in reading it, if only to allow one to snort in disagreement and to turn on to something requiring less thought, which latter seems rapidly becoming a favorite with the majority of contemporary readers...
...herself indeed a witch, and sets herself weirdly to learning the trade. Straws and hairs and fingernails are stuff for fantastic poppets; Ahab, the neighbor Thumb's bull is fit to make a virile familiar. In answer to her prayers that the Prince of Darkness send her a tutor in the black arts, there appears nightly a demon disguised in the swarthy skin and gold hooped earrings of a pirate...