Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...private tutor and as the head of an unusually successful tutorial school he strove always at the delicate task of supplementing college training, not undermining it. Whatever we may think of the system that he developed, it was always clear to those who knew him best that he worked from the highest motives and sought to give help of a kind that reflected an unusual ideal in teaching. Friendly and generous in all his relations his passing will mark a real loss in college life." GEORGE HOWARD PARKER '87. Professor of Zoology...
...duty the keeping of records of the various dormitories. For two years he filled the position of an assistant in biology, securing his master's degree in 1886. Then followed two years at the Law School, after which he took up permanent, residence near the college as a private tutor...
Berlin again?utter poverty?furious labor, this time on a novel?failure once more?an attempt as a tutor ? as an actor ? as a tutor again, and this time an interval of peace, of what was almost luxury, as the protege of a rich banker. Then a deliberate return to the slums?the impulse to write?to probe into odd corners of life too strong to be denied. At last the edge of the precipice?no reasonable future in sight?abruptly followed by what proved salvation?the offered editorship of a new political weekly. The book ends there...
...George Ashley Campbell for the remainder of the academic year from May 1, 1923. Other appointments are: for two years from September 1, 1923:--Dr. Arthur Eli Monroe '08, a member of the committee on Divisional Examinations in History, Government, and Economics; and Mr. Paul Rice Doolin 2G., tutor in history and literature...
...Arsene Lupin. Louise Garnett's translations of Dostoieffski have brought her deserved and discriminating praise. But, in general, the translator is reduced to the scraps that fall from the critical table. "The translation seems adequate," cautiously, from a reviewer whom it might take three months and a private tutor to read the original?that sort of thing...