Word: tutoring
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After graduating from Harvard, in 1875, Dean Briggs took a position as tutor in Greek. By 1890 he had changed his field, however, and become a full professor of English, and a year later, dean of the College. In 1902 he left this position to take over that of dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences, becoming at the same time president of Radcliffe College, where he continued until his resignation...
Meauwhile, as Kenneth P. Kempton '12, instructor in English, and non-resident tutor in Winthrop House, directs his players through their preliminary paces, carpenters have finished the erection of an unobtrusive unpainted stage, measuring 24 by 10 by 4 feet across the east end of the Common Room, and other artisans are expected shortly to appear to complete the decoration of the stage, and execute the engineering feat of hanging the curtatu...
Alston Chase discusses with force and courage creative scholarship as a criterion for the selection of professors and tutors in the current issue of the Critic. Considered as whole, the article is important in that it takes up many problems whose solutions should be forged on the anvil of debate. The question of a tutor's qualifications, however, is one which deserves particular consideration...
What are the qualifications for a tutor? They are different from that of a professor for he must personally guide a student through his field. While a professor with a skilled knowledge of his field may make up for his lack of teaching ability, the tutor cannot do this. He must possess breadth of character which will permit him to pass on something more than facts. He must know that life exists outside of Cambridge if he is to give a man an education which will be of use to him. In short, a thesis or research work cannot serve...
...Harvard Advocate at its punch last night elected R. Gale Noyes, Instructor in English, Dana B. Durand, tutor in the field of History and Literature, and Edward H. Dowey, Instructor in English A-1 as associate editors...