Word: tutored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...student at Oxford, who has been carefully selected, is guided and advised, not compelled, by an assigned tutor. His degree is not awarded until he has proved his right to be recognized as having a college* education by taking comprehensive examinations which are largely non-factual in character. This measures the student's present proficiency and not his past success in cramming for numerous quizzes. Oxford has succeeded in encouraging both independence of mind and maturity of judgment...
Shoulder the Sky. In six weeks, in an assigned paper, Empson wrote the first draft of Seven Types of Ambiguity, which became a classic of modern literary criticism. His tutor, Semanticist I. A. Richards, had been exploring the wide range of meanings that various minds can find in the simplest verse. Empson took up the subject and exhausted it. Some readers complained Poet-Mathematician Empson had "read things into poetry that weren't there," erecting double or multiple meanings into a poetic principle...
Klemens W. von Klemperer, Teaching Fellow and tutor in History and Literature, has been appointed instructor in History at Smith College, Herbert J. Davis, president of the college, announced yesterday...
...Klemperer, who came here from Vienna ten years ago, has been assistant tutor at Eliot House since...
...blaze was subdued by Bruce Seligman, entry tutor, and Frederic Amory '49 before fire engines arrived...