Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tutors advise students about their reading, discuss with them their subject as a whole and in relation to their courses and the books they have read, argue with them, stimulate them to independent thought in short, provide them with what might be termed intellectual companionship. A tutor's contact with a student extends not only beyond the special field into the general field of learning, but also beyond the intellectual level into the dimension of the human friendly relation. The tutor is closer to the student than any other member of the faculty. It is his business...
...deprived of the maturer influence of upper classmen, the youthful student is hardly as well off at the junior college as in the freshman or sophomore class of the ordinary college or university. The opportunities for browsing around libraries, the possibilities of contact with an inspiring lecturer or tutor are much more numerous at the higher institutions. The elimination from the universities of this plastic period in favor of developing the highly specialized graduate schools does not seem the best method of sloving the problem. By insisting on a greater standard of endeavor from the primary grades upwards, by widening...
...Ross is perhaps the greatest living authority on Aristotle and has published a series of translations of the works of the great Greek philosopher which are the best translations in the English language and possibly the best in the world. Since 1902 Professor Ross has been a Fellow and Tutor of Oriel College, Oxford, and has been Deputy of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford since...
...Buell, who has been a tutor in the University since 1922, and instructor since 1923, has been appointed assistant professor of government...
...Oxford graduate of 1920, Mr. L. R. Miller who came to Cambridge as instructor and tutor in 1921, has been named assistant professor of history...