Word: tutor
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...other, for it is that of the respective methods of teaching and study. At the English University a student is freer to set his own standard of work than here at Cambridge. His freedom, to begin with, comes, in selecting his college and secondly in his choice of a tutor. It is not meant by the latter that one can deliberately pick out the instructor with whom he wishes to work, but he does select his field of study and in that way is likely to be aware of the man who will tutor him. So on the one hand...
...were to venture criticism of the undergraduate mind as I have known it at Harvard, it would be only to repeat the customary European verdict on American students, that they are somewhat lacking in historical perspective. This is a thing that doubtless will develop as the effect of the tutor and the general examination becomes more evident; it is at present difficult to achieve in a curriculum so widely specialized as that of the Division of Fine Arts, but it is the important thing for the American student to get from his education, because it is so badly needed...
Married. Margaret Wilson, author of The Able McLaughlins, Harper prize novel (TIME, Oct. 29), to G. D. Turner, tutor in Brasenose College, Oxford; at Paris...
...There is more to be gained from division by halls than from segregation by classes," said Mr. David Lindsay Keir. Exchange Tutor from University College, Oxford, when questioned by a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. His companion at the time, Mr. Clarence Crane Brinton '19, who has studied at New College, Oxford, said, "I have lived under both systems, and I must admit that Oxford is more democratic than Harvard...
...Labor government will do well it if can stay in office five months," said Dr. R. L. Buell, instructor in Government and tutor in the Division of History, Government, and Economics, to a CRIMSON reporter last evening when asked to comment on the recent party chance in the English government. "It will use this period to convince the British public, notably the laboring public, that a labor majority should be returned...