Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Royal tutors meanwhile told anecdotes in Belgrade about the.ir pupil. "Why do trees have leaves?" asked His Majesty. "To breathe," explained English Tutor C. C. Parrott. "Indeed?" said King Peter. "Then how do trees breathe all winter after they have lost their leaves...
...High School, served apprenticeship in the stoneyards of the California School of Fine Arts under the sympathetic eye of Sculptor Ralph Stackpole. When Helen Phillips later entered the school, she found Sculptor Stackpole's vigorous, massive modernism much to her liking. Working directly on the stone like her tutor, Sculptor Phillips completed and exhibited two determined, crisply defined heads, took the Art Association's $300 Purchase Prize for a sturdy Young Woman (see cut). Her scholarship money will enable Sculptor Phillips to observe U. S. and German modern architecture, Mexico's Mayan pyramids and Toltec temples...
...simple remedy is to eliminate this driftwood at the end of the Sophomore year:--after the tutor can tell with reasonable accuracy just what he is up against with each individual. This can be done by a report of the student's interest and capability. Those who wished might dispense of tutorial aid of their own accord, and for men dropped from the ranks of tutees, added courses could be made to fit the bill, and no waste of time would ensue...
Obviously the present system with its overworked tutors and great mass of half-hearted tutees cannot be allowed to continue indefinitely. Money and time are wasted and the tutors are prevented from pursuing their own interests and fields of general development in accordance with the idea embodied in the scheme under which they come and stay at Harvard. A tutor is a definite and recognized member of the faculty with equally definite and defined obligations to fulfill. He is not, however, a nurse-maid nor is he a camp-counselor. He has as much responsibility to himself...
...known fact at the moment that tutors in many Departments are grossly over-worked because of the number of tutees they are caring for. Further, due to financial limitations, a great many of the present tutors have no chance of advancement. On the other side, educational arguments for some modification are brought forward on the justification that many men do not derive any benefit from their tutors and that some would prefer not to work with a tutor...