Word: tutored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the judges will be Clarence H. Haring, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics and Master of Dunster House, and Wallace E. Davies, teaching fellow in History and Senior Tutor of Dunster House...
Jimmy's was founded by one Dr. Frost; its nickname came from a subsequent, highly successful Army examination tutor, Captain Walter James, Royal Engineers. Today the school is headed by benignly sharp Daniel A. Ruddle, who has been its scientific tutor for 30 years and would make an impressive stand-in for Mr. Chips. The school at present concentrates on the extremely stiff examinations for the medical profession, Navy cadetships, Royal Marines and Royal Indian Navy. After the war, however, Mr. Ruddle expects to offer, as before, the highest type of abbreviated preparation for university examinations, including honors finals...
...Ruddle would not call it cramming. Says he: "We study our pupils carefully and give special coaching on the weakest subjects. No tutor ever has more than four or five pupils so that he can give them all individual attention. . . . This is the secret of our success...
...scholar shall go into any tavern or victualling house in Cambridge to eat and drink there, unless in the presence of his parent or guardian, without leave from the President, a professor, or a tutor ..." under pain of a 50 cent fine, thus spake the Harvard Laws of 1816, which are now being shown with other examples of student life and the regulation thereof in the basement display room of Widener...
Reluctant Believer. Red-cheeked, balding, Belfast-born, Clive Staples Lewis, 45, has been tutor and lecturer at Oxford's Magdalen College since 1925, teaches medieval English literature. His lectures are an Oxford rarity: they are jampacked. During World War I he served in France with the Somerset Light Infantry, was invalided home. His aunt, says he, was relieved to learn that the wound in his back came from a misdirected British shell, and was not an indication that he had been running away from the Germans...