Word: tutor
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...university. Oxford and Cambridge, moreover, have not the complicated problems arising here out of the fact that graduate students--whose object should be the attainment of specialized knowledge--are taught in the same classes with undergraduates--whose aim should be the acquisition of intellectual power. The work of a tutor is infinitely more strenuous and exhausting than that of a lecturer; the fact that the academic year in Oxford and in Cambridge is of only six months duration is an indication of the strain to which the teaching force is put. A tutorial system is, moreover, extremely expensive; the tutors...
...most popular forms of employment during the college-year were: tutor, clerk, proctor, monitor, census-taker and ticket-taker. During the, summer the most popular vocations were tutoring, and serving as tutor companion, camp counsellor or clerk...
...most popular forms of employment during term-time were as tutor, clerk, proctor, monitor, census-taker, choreman and ticket taker. There were also many men who occupied their spare hours in employment as carpenters, salesmen, librarians, ushers, waiters, stenographers or watchmen. During the summer the leading employments for men who were earning their way through college were tutoring and serving as tutor companion, camp counsellor or clerk...
...towards the end of the fourth year in a field to be chosen by the candidate; the completion of nine courses during the first two years; exemption after the second year from the ordinary work of the courses and the substitution of work done under the guidance of a tutor whose main duty shall be to advise and to help the candidate in preparation for the examinations of his Senior year, but who shall also recommend (not more than) three courses, the lectures of which the student shall attend...
...four. The first years, it is rightly stated, are spent chiefly in the distribution of studies and the process of settling into the life of the college. The last two are spent in preparation for honors or general examinations. The superimposition without extra credit of much reading under a tutor makes proper attention to regular courses difficult...