Word: tutor
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...what amounts to a nearly perfect commentary on the current state of Harvard teaching, Smith wrote: "If in each college the tutor or teacher, who was to instruct each student...should not be voluntarily chosen by the student, but appointed by the head of the college; and if, in case of neglect, inability, or bad usage, the student should not be allowed to change him for another...[it] would not only tend very much to extinguish all emulation among the different tutors of the same college, but to diminish very much in all of them the necessity of diligence...
...Emperor asserts what will probably be a lasting claim on memory. Bertolucci has restored to the Forbidden City all the life it once sustained: a detachment of troops clattering through the night to seize a baby from his crib and place him on the throne; the Emperor's English tutor (Peter O'Toole) flapping through the streets on his bicycle; an Emperor and his bride (the lovely, fragile Joan Chen) overwhelmed by their huge wedding chamber; the great courtyard filled with wailing eunuchs, dismissed by their ruler; a tennis court, so strangely out of place in these precincts...
...much based on a concept, except it sort of acquired a Flinstonian theme," said Adams House Tutor Doug Fitch, who helped decorate. "We wanted to attract attention to the colors on the ground, the colors of the light...
Dudley House Senior Tutor John R. Marquand, whoserves as secretary of the Ad Board, said the bodychanges its decisions in about one-third of allreconsiderations. But only one-third of allstudents who are eligible to do so ask forreconsiderations, he said...
While the tutor was out of the room, thepoliceman arrived and got into a shouting matchwith Shustorovich. Rak returned, and the policemanleft but took down both Shustorovich and Pierce'sbursar's card numbers before departing...