Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...courses and co-ordinate all the work a man does in College into a unified whole. At present, however, it only adds to the old cramming system. Undergraduates cram for their tutorial conferences quite as much as for tests and to just as little purpose. The idea that the tutor stands for a real liberal education rarely enters the head of one of his students. Hastily prepared for, lackadasically attended, and quickly over, these tutorial meetings have become merely an added chore amid the routine of themes and reports...
...faculty has made no provision by which a student may be relieved of the work in any course because of his tutorial obligations. Moreover, no credit is given for tutorial work apart from its indirect results in the general examinations, and, for incentive, men have to depend upon a tutor assigned by lottery. He may be inspiring and he may be dull--it is a gamble...
...which now take up his time, the system could become much more worth while. The general examinations should bear sufficient weight in determining a man's standing in his class, to allow him to dispense with some of the minor tests he is now obliged to take. Furthermore the tutor should be recruited from the best minds of the Faculty and greater stress laid on this preparation for the general examination than on any course...
...despite all the rules--or may be because of them--the students occasionally burst forth in unmistakable manifestations of youthful spirits. In 1768 four were expelled for bombarding the study of Mr. Willed, a tutor, with bricks. Also the graduating class of that year aroused the ire of the Royalists by refusing to graduate in British clothes--worn by all fashionable people in those days. They appeared in American homespun and American boots...