Word: tutoring
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Finally in 1777, the Corporation at the request of the Overseers replaced him with Ebenezer Storer. While presiding over the Continental Congress, Hancock reluctantly turned over to a tutor 16,000 pounds sterling of the school's securities. The tutor had to sneak through enemy lines to return to Cambridge. And from time to time thereafter, Hancock gave back other notes as he ran across them...
Wallace McDonald '43, now an instructor at Williams College, will return here to succeed Shaplin in the scholarship office. Before going to Williams, he had served for four years as an assistant dean of the College and as a tutor in History and Literature...
...informal relationship envisioned by Lowell to be most effective, the five major fields and some of the smaller departments should be represented on each House's resident staff. Some Houses lack resident tutors even in English and Social Relations. Only one House has a resident in Philosophy, although an instructor in this field would be an ideal primer for student discussions, whether in the dining room, the common room, or the tutor's own suite. By selecting tutors to live in the House from a large number of fields, Masters would enable nearly every student to find a Faculty member...
Although he held many University offices, Little was particularly respected by the members of Adams House. Joseph C. Palamountain, Jr., Allston Burr Senior Tutor for Adams, praised Little last night, saying, "In spite of his many University assignments, he was extremely interested in the House and always had time for students." It was legend among Adams men that Little knew every man in the House by their first names as soon as they were admitted to the House...
...early records of the college contain many references to punishment of students and reprimanding of faculty and presidents for indiscreet references to the scriptures. The following was one of the regulations in 1643: Every schollar shall be present in his Tutor's Chamber at the seventh houre in the morning, immediately after the sound of the bell, at his opening the scripture and prayer. So also at the fifth houre at night, and then give account of his own private reading in the scriptures...