Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SCENE: U. 24. Professor By-Path's Seniors are crowding the benches. Freshman Tutor Sleet is in the chair. Professor By-Path, it seems, is cutting...
...SPECIAL meeting of the Overseers of Harvard College was held Tuesday, December 10, Hon. E. R. Hoar, President, in the chair. The following appointments were confirmed: George Russell Briggs, A. B., as tutor in mathematics for three years from September 1, 1878; Sumner Burritt Stiles, A. B., 1876, as Procter. As Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts for one year, from January 1, 1879, William Gray, Henry J. Bigelow, and Thomas G. Appleton. The election of Reginald Heber Fitz as professor of pathological history was referred under the rules to Hon. Messrs. Codman, Wyman, and Green. The Visiting Committee...
...work of his Freshman year troubled him somewhat, especially the mathematics. The German, to be sure, was easy enough, and he soon became good friends with the tutor; but he complained that the other instructors were too cold and difficult to approach. Even pecuniary considerations had no influence with them...
...professors of the university, not being officers of the colleges, generally reside in detached houses. Their pay is rather less than that of our own professors. The Oxford tutor is usually an accomplished scholar who has himself passed through the university course. He is the familiar friend of the young men, often entertained by them at their social gatherings, and entertaining them in return. His care of his pupil is not limited to official hours, but is often special...
...regret that in our last number the blame for not removing the German tutor, about whom there has been so much scandal, was laid on the Faculty, whereas the Corporation are really responsible. It is so difficult to find anybody who is responsible for anything in a college like our own that the mistake was an excusable one. We are happy to say that we have learned that strong efforts were made by a few individual members of the Faculty to obtain his removal, although the matter could not come before them as a body. Of the Corporation, however...