Word: tutored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...student is forced to specialize to an undesirable degree on one minute point; and 3) criticism and discussion of the student's work may consist of nothing more than a pencilled grade from a harassed anonymous section man, or at most a ten or fifteen minute discussion with a tutor or section man alone on the specific problems of the paper...
...even a year afterwards that one Allan Walton Gould, a man "always somewhat inclined to books," reaped the first rewards of Bancroft's generosity. Gould studied for a year in Leipzig under the fellowship and returned to become a tutor at Harvard and finally a Unitarian Minister. His class's 30th anniversary book was somewhat scandalized by the report that he had once held a post in a church "reputed to be radical...
...years the Institute for Advanced Study (which has no connection with Princeton University but is generally confused with it) has attracted some of the world's best minds. It offers them a moderate salary, an office, and leisure to write books, tutor prize protégés (who are all Ph.D.s) or just sit around and think...
...short, heavy-set Harvard alumnus with gray hair and a Phi Beta Kappa key has been spoon-feeding me History 32a for a little over a month new. He is a professional tutor...
...attached to the chain of a fancy Swiss pocket watch he kept lying on the desk to time our progress through History 32. "It's what a man knows that counts, not just the marks he can get"--a rather starting bit of philosophy to hear from a professional tutor. When I read him a list of six topics which Professor Ropp had given out as probable exam questions, Cramer said, "We don't want to aim for any particular topics. This man Ropp fooled some of the boys on the last exam, so we don't want to take...