Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman are to be uncovered and are forbidden to wear their Hats (unless in stormy weather) in the front door yard of the President's or Professor's House or within Ten rods of the Person of the President Eight Rods of the Professor and five Rods of a Tutor." Freshmen must have spent a considerable part of each day glancing about that with a calculating eye on hand their hatbrims...
...greatest fault in the Harvard tutorial system is the tutors. Educated in American colleges and universities before the advent of the English idea of tutorial instruction was translated into the American conception of what such a system must be, these men have for the most part, no sense of that subtle relation between tutor and student which must exist, if the system is to be at all effective Furthermore, they are Americans. And to an American, even in college teaching, there must be progress toward position, prestige, or life becomes futile Unlike the Englishman who sees his lifework in being...
...last named difficulty hinges on the question of university economics. It there were money enough in becoming a tutor to promise a man a decent existence, many more would be content to consider this a life work. The second handicap to success could be overcome, to some extent, by the development of the remedy suggested for the third, provided, of course, the cost system of departmentalized education be viewed with the necessary grain of salt. The first can only be eradicated by closer contact between English and American tutors. Unless these men here learn the subtle refinements of what must...
...first Faculty of the College was Nathaniel Eaton. In his person, he embodied the President, Treasurer, Secretary, Dean, Bursar, Professor, Tutor, and Steward. With all the duties attached to these offices, the Faculty might have been excused a little neglect of one or two of them. But Mr. Eaton habitually neglected them all, and tyrannised over the tender College in each and all of his capacities. It may be seen that in his various positions he had ample opportunity for tyranny of a most complex and disagreeable nature...
...gift of the Bishop of London is in the form of a "Dictionary of Authors", compiled by Nathan Prince, of the class of 1718 in the University, and Tutor and Fellow of Harvard for 20 years. His intention, as expresseed in a note on the fly-leaf, was "to write down the Lives, Characters, and Works of all the Authors in those Arts and Sciences which I intend to gain an insight into." Some 276 pages are then filled with lists of authors, with information about them and their books, which Mr. Prince intended to read...