Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tutor in Spanish for the next hour examination, address A. G. B. 32 Pemberton Square, Boston...
...variety, this exposition was omitted, and in the evening one of the students repeated from memory the sermons he had heard during the day, a practice no doubt pleasing to its victim, and his fellow sufferers. The President was required to officiate, and in his absence one of the tutors. From numerous traditions it would seem as though the tutor especially thought they were working by the day, and not by the job. Music by the singing club was furnished only on Sundays. Within the last thirty years, even, students have been compelled to go to Chapel by star-light...
...time regulations at Yale directs that "A student shall raise his hat at a distance of ten rods from the president, at eight rods from a professor, and at five rods from a tutor...
...living expenses are very much less than even at our cheapest colleges. In England, at Cambridge and Oxford. the expense is about the same as at Harvard, perhaps being slightly more at Oxford. An almost necessary item of expense at an English University is a fee for "coaching," or tutoring, as we would call it. With us, aid from private tutors is confined almost entirely to men who have neglected their work during the term and are desirous simply of passing the examinations; but there, the best scholars, those who are working for the prizes, are the men who avail...
...lady, in a class studying physiology, made answer to a question, that in seven years a human body became entirely changed, so that not a particle which was in it at the commencement of the period would remain at the close of it. "Then, Miss Lisle," said the young tutor, "in seven years you will cease to be Miss Lisle?" "Why, yes, sir; I hope so," said she very modestly, looking at the floor.-[Dartmouth...