Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...employ, Author Aiken's second novel is a distinct addition to U. S. letters. In any list of ten best U. S. novels of the year, Great Circle would have to have a place. Hero Andrew ("One-Eye") Gather is not prepossessing at first sight. A private tutor in Cambridge, Mass., Harvard graduate, intellectual in his late 30's, with a glass eye (unexplained), an increasingly unhappy marriage and a correspondingly increasing tendency to drunkenness, he has in his cosmos not only too much ego but too much untethered intelligence and the haunting, still unlaid nightmare...
Graduate students working on theses and tutors rooming in the Houses may likewise occupy their rooms up to August 16, on the same terms. After this date the tutor must either care for his room himself, or make special arrangements with Lehman Hall...
...corollary to the general examination system the tutorial system was adopted. At present every upperclassman is assigned to a tutor whose duties are to guide the student and instruct him in studies outside his course which will fill in the gaps between subjects and round out the general education of the tutee. The tutors are, for the most part, regular faculty members, devoting a large part of their time to tutorial duties, and are selected because of special abilities and a taste for individual instruction. The reading period was adopted as a means of strengthening the tutorial system. Another change...
Several witty songs by R. G. Noyes, head tutor of Dunster House and instructor in English, have been employed in the story of the play and will be sung by members of the cast. A color scheme of the four colors, black, white, brown, and yellow will be used for the costumes...
...however, three publishers of college text books have instituted court proceedings against a college tutor who, they claim, has violated the copyrights on their properties by reprinting them in condensed form. This may be one approach to the cramming school problem, and it is easy to see where official sympathies will lie in the issue. But, more than anything else, the necessity for cramming for exams has been obviated by the spread of the tutoring systems and reading periods within colleges themselves. No such great store is now set on tests in single subjects, and a comprehensive knowledge...