Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unrecognized by Mr. Darrow. The present tutorial system does much to make up for the handicap under which Harvard is placed. American preparation is adapted by it to English educational theories. Oxford goes to the extreme of casting its men adrift in the libraries of England with only a tutor to guide their footsteps. Harvard has borrowed the tutor, but finds it necessary to retain course instruction to meet the needs of the average preparatory and high school graduate. If Mr. Darrow but knows it, Harvard is doing all that can be done in America to -encourage careful and scholarly...
...fields of concentration all except those in the various sciences and in Mathematics require a general examination, failure to pass which will cost a man his degree even though he has passed all of his courses, and that in all fields in which the general examination is required, a tutor is provided to give advice in choosing courses and in planning reading in preparation for the general examination...
...impolite story which is one of the most consummate pieces of pantomime that has ever enriched the cinema. He starts down to breakfast, falls in love with a charming proletarian whom he meets in the hall, lets the Princess to whom he is engaged marry her brother's tutor. To Franz Molnar, author, $50,000 was paid for screen rights - a graceful benevolence, since Molnar could not by any chance detect in the cinema so much as a plagiarism of his play (The Swan, reviewed in TIME, Nov. 5, 1923). For in the play there...
...Baron R. Briggs was graduated from Harvard in 1875. For 45 years, he has worked there, as tutor in Greek, Professor of English, Dean of the College, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. For 17 years, he was Chairman of the Harvard Athletic Committee, taught sportsmanship, waged war on the educated muckers who once kept his college athletics in derision. "Sport for sport's sake," was his slogan. He pitied trembling umpires, decried inanely garrulous big men, reformed bullying coaches, strive to bring honor back to amateur Baseball...
...successful contestants in the preliminary competition for the Pasteur Debate were announced yesterday by the judges, Mr. J. N. Lincoln. Tutor in the Division of Modern Languages, and Mr. J. J. Penny, Instructor in French. They are; J. R. Creel '27, A. G. King '26, W. D. Morton '27, E. C. Sibley '28, George Staff '26 and J. R. Smith...