Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Bolling, R. H. '12, Harvard College, New York, N. Y., Private Tutor...
...Many men who are on the whole regular in attending lectures are led to believe that seminars by outside coaches are essential. Apparently they are too lazy to prepare themselves thoroughly or else they are victims of the fantastic notion that by listening to the charmed words of the tutor and reproducing them as nearly exactly as possible on the examination paper they will get a good mark...
...tutor's seminar is doubtless better than no preparatory review at all. Yet a review of any real value to a man is something that he can do best for himself. Just as the act of note-taking in the first instance seems to impress the subject matter of a lecture upon the memory, so the process of reviewing and boiling down notes makes the reviewer at home with the entire field before him. The result is directly proportionate to the effort. The man who leaves the compilation and preparatory work to the tutor deprives himself of the most essential...
...they limited to specialists whose reputation is professed. Young Oxonians, in general, lead a serene and undistracted, but rich and wholesome life. They cultivate athletics because each is an active devotee of some form of sport. And conversation--in junior commons, in the informal clubs, in study or in tutor's room--it is an education, a passion...
...past, men who have shuffled through a secondary school curriculum based on the Harvard examinations, or worked for a summer with a tutor experienced at "spotting" questions, have been able to enter the Freshman class. On the other hand, students, who have maintained a high rank of scholarship in the work prescribed at a school not primarily fitting its graduates for Harvard, have been seriously handicapped, if not actually deterred from submitting to the test...