Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forgets its love affairs, but the fire burns deep. Perhaps in its very intensity it burns itself out. Young Woodley, written by John Van Druten (an English schoolmaster), depicts the time when the blaze is fiercest. Young Woodley has fallen in love with the pretty wife of his mathematics tutor...
...regarding college board examinations as a symbol of all that is arbitrary and antiquated in American education. The necessity for securing certain grades in certain subjects, dealing only with the bare bones of languages and mathematics, forces preparatory schools into cramming and gives an opportunity to the professional tutor who can get anyone into a given college and keep him in after he gets there. The University's one-seventh plan is an attempt at lubricating the present entrance system; the recent action of the college board itself in planning intelligence tests for the future has a similar intention behind...
...Elliott, lecturer and tutor in the Division of History, government, and Economics, will preside at the meeting Tuesday night. Dr. Elliott, who was formerly on the faculty of the University of California, spent some time at Oxford, where he was a member of the Oxford Union, the body on which the Harvard Debating Union was based...
When I was looking for some evidence that I was remembered by those far from the folds of learning and was hunting some mail I came upon the only thing which I dread worse than a bill--a card from my tutor. So I had to chase up to the pleasant-scented, airy, and roomy bulk called Holyoke House and visit "my friend and my severest critic." Needless to say he was surprised and delighted to see me, even offered me a cigarette which I refused, remembering to fear the Greeks even bearing gifts, as Shakespeare said. At once...
...Summer, just because it involves participation in a sport." The argument is made that there is little or no difference in the case of the man who "gets a job in a Summer hotel and plays on the hotel ball nine" and the man who is engaged as a tutor and plays with his pupils. "Both," it is submitted, "are engaged primarily for their athletic ability." That is common sense, although it may disturb sticklers for the old-fashioned code of amateurism. "We must be chary," says the committee, "of forbidding acts when the evil lies only in their abuse...