Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...COMMUNICATION, which, unfortunately, we have no room to print in full, calls attention to the arctic temperature of our recitation-rooms on Monday mornings, disagreeable alike to the tutor and the pupils, and making our early recitations a severe penance after our enjoyment of domestic bliss the day before. It is well known that cold sharpens the temper and blunts the intellect, and we agree with the writer in thinking it would be well to have fires lighted in the furnaces Sunday afternoons, - unless, indeed, our janitors are deterred by religious scruples...
...chief object of the first year is only the acclimation of the would-be student, and the instructor's duty is only to keep the mind from falling into its primitive weakness, a tutor's services are doubtless as efficient as any could be. But if rapid progress in clear and determinate knowledge is desired, if universal and indisputable truths are sought instead of partial and half-tested theories, an experience greater than a tutor's becomes necessary...
...Tutor to Freshman. "Your translation is incorrect; it is not as I explained it yesterday." Fresh. "I know it, sir; I looked the matter up after recitation, and I found that you were wrong." - Chronicle...
...distance, those who compel us to do such things cannot imagine how great an incentive to resignation it would be if a few more of them would keep us company. Misery loves company, and it is a great aggravation to our discomfort that we are never permitted to see tutor or professor with hair unkempt and coat buttoned up around his throat. Men who would show such a lofty disregard for their own comfort might assuredly think themselves entitled to urge self-abnegation upon others; but O that those who have already reached this height might attain a still greater...
...maiden betrays, but the Tutor repays...