Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...learn the intricacies of Harvard College and to teach the intricacies of English history was, in brief, the work which Mr. Kenneth K. M. Leys, first exchange tutor from Oxford University, found cut out for him when he arrived in Cambridge at the end of September. According to the agreement made by President Lowell last winter he was to stay until the end of the first term at which time his colleague at University College would replace him. After a stay of a scant three months, then, Mr. Leys leaves Cambridge tomorrow to sail for England. All those who have...
ANTIC HAY-Aldous Huxley-Doran ($2.00). Of Theodore Gumbril, sometime Oxford tutor, and his superb invention - Gumbril's Patent Pneumatic Trousers-They Protect the Lumbar Ganglia and Lend Incisive Poise to Businessmen. Of his extraordinary exploits in Love and Business, under the beaverish protection of a huge, artificial beard. Of Casimir Lypiatt, the boomingly futile would-be genius-and Shearwater, the scientist who investigated sweat- and P. Mercaptan, the snouty-faced amateur of rococo amours-and Myra Viveash with her expiring voice- and Zoe-and Emily-and Rosie-a whole horde of fantastic characters dancing the antic hay around...
...plot of The Swan is not original. It tells of a beautiful (modern) princess in love with a handsome tutor; of a prince who would marry and make her his queen; of the ancient axiom that there is no royal road to happiness. Yet the very venerability of this plot in its application to the play betokens the master artificer. For only meticulous meditation long after one has left the playhouse discloses the deception. Such deception is admissible; indeed it is a privileged stratagem of genius...
...Gallienne is entrusted the important title role. Miss Le Gallienne is a very quiet actress, expressing with a poignant emphasis that she who would be queen cannot employ the palace as a playroom for emotion. Basil Rathbone is her tutor; Philip Merrivale her prince. They seem manufactured, moulded, polished for their parts. Among the remainder of the consistently competent company are the capable veterans Hilda Spong and Alison Skipworth...
...some such scheme might be valuable. The German department has courses of two kinds, those designed chiefly to give instruction in the German language, and those that have to deal with German life and literature. In the first of these there would seem to be no need for the tutor. In the second there readily might be. To have men, tutors or advisers, call them what you will, to oversee, guide, and encourage the individual work of the students in the department would certainly be of great assistance. Such men would inevitably foster a disposition in the students...