Word: tutored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What was the special reason for this earnest vehemence, aside from the fact that the World is a self-constituted tutor to all men on all matters? Harvard men, and many a World-reader, knew. The publishers Pulitzer of the World were Harvard men; Ralph, the elder, having been graduated an A. B. in 1900; younger Joseph having attended, 1904-06. The executive editor of the World, red-headed Herbert B. Swope, would have been Harvard '03 but for an accident. The lumbering World confessionist-colyumist, Heywood Broun, had sat to Harvard professors from...
...following review has been written by Henry Russell Hitchcock Jr. '21, tutor and assistant in Fine Arts and a former member of the Dramatic Club...
...Wright, a tutor in the Department of Government, proposed the question. He stated that, before being able to adequately discuss the question, one must have a working definition of a democratic government...
...Eliot became tutor in mathematics in the College during the winter of 1853-54, under the presidency of James Walker. With his friend and fellow-tutor, James Mills Peirce, he introduced the first written examination ever conducted for entire classes at Harvard College. In 1858, Mr. Eliot was promoted to be Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Chemistry--"the grade of Assistant Professor being then created for the first time in the University, with a definition that has remained unchanged to this day." He rowed in crews made up of graduate students and a few College officers, and in 1858 took...
...Eliot's experience as tutor and Assistant Professor convinced him that under a system of prescription, work of high excellence could not be expected from the general body of undergraduates. "I saw clearly," he says, "that a prescribed system, particularly when it was conducted with all possible efficiency had a very deadening effect on scholarship and intellectual ambition in the teacher...