Word: tutor
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Holworthy 20: Dr. Marcel Francon of Lyon, France. Harvard A.M. '25, Ph.D. '29. Now an instructor and tutor in French...
...four-year course comes at the end of the Freshman year at Harvard instead of a year later as in many other colleges. By the beginning of his Sophomore year the student is expected to be ready to do work of university grade and to work under a tutor...
Each Sophomore is assigned to a tutor in the field of concentration he has elected, usually to a tutor attached to his own House. Of the tutorial staff of each House, about 10 are resident in the House and the rest have studies there. The student meets his tutor about once a week, eats with him occasionally, and is expected, in one way or another, to absorb a good deal of learning and to benefit by the intimate intellectual contacts. At the same time every upperclassman carries a regular schedule of courses, except that men out for honors can secure...
...France in 1926, Jarboro hired a tutor to teach her the language. When her funds ran low, she sold the house in New Jersey, went to Italy. Four years passed before she made her début, as Aïda in the Puccini theatre in Milan. Later she sang in L'Africaine, for three years thereafter appeared regularly in leading opera houses in France, Italy, Switzerland. Last month she returned to the U. S. after seven years, showed Manhattan operagoers an Aïda really Ethiopian...
...Barnes, born on All Fools' Day in 1874, went to King Edward's School in Birmingham and to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a Second Wrangler (honors man in mathematics), fellow, lecturer, junior dean and tutor. He became an inspirational, evangelical preacher, was made canon of Westminster. In 1924 Ramsay MacDonald had him appointed Bishop of Birmingham. Anglo-Catholics protested, have continued to protest. As a churchman, Bishop Barnes is as low as a sole. During one church quarrel he exclaimed that he would "not be driven to Tennessee or to Rome." To him they both represent...