Word: tutors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...child. Even as late as 1699 the college records at Cambridge, England, show that offenders were "wipt in the buttry" with a lash, though even here was a great advance, for about a century previous we read that a certain mother gave instructions to her son's tutor to "trewly belassch him," adding, "so did the last maystr and the best that he ever had." Another peculiarity, at least to Americans, is the supreme control a man's tutor had over him. He bought his clothes, gave him his very scanty allowance of pocket money, and attended...
From the letters of this tutor we gather the following miscellaneous facts : Winter quarters were more expensive than others, and the "excessive rate of things" made it difficult for the youth, though studiously inclined, to keep within his "stint" or allowance. The rent of his chamber, to be divided between himself and his chamber-fellow, was only 12s. a year, and 7s. 4d. supplied him with coal and candles from the end of long vacation till the beginning of March...
...this economy was directly owing to the tutor's supervisions, for every remittance passed through his hands. There are some very amusing letters between the tutor mentioned above and the mother of his "Pupil Anthony Gawdy" on the subject of whether it would be cheaper to have a dressing gown made at Cambridge or at home; and the pedagogue quite agrees with her ladyship in her letter where she states : "Whether I think it were not amiss if you willed him to defer yet making up of it till his coming home, which may happily save yet which ye Taylor...
...writer of the article says also "that this overseeing of the clothes formed part of a recognized system is clear from the fact that they fell under the tutor's immediate charge at Oxford as well as at Cambridge. Lady Harley, in 1639, wrote to her son at Magdalen Hall, "I like the stuff for your cloths well; but the cullor of those for everyday I do not like so well; the silk chamlet I like very well, both cullor and stuff. Let your stokens be always of the same culler of your cloths, and I hope you now were...
Chas. T. Libbey, tutor in Freshman Mathematics and German. College House...