Word: tutorship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year or two after my graduation, I applied to President Eliot for a tutorship in Greek. Tutors in those days were appointed for terms of three years. I was young, inexperienced, and afraid, and undoubtedly made a bad, impression on him. He gave me no encouragement at all. Yet Greek was prescribed to Freshmen and tutors had to be found. The academic year for the upper classes began on Thursday; for Freshmen, some of whom were examined for admission in the last three days of the week, it began on the following Monday. On Saturday half of the Freshmen...
...system is to be at all effective Furthermore, they are Americans. And to an American, even in college teaching, there must be progress toward position, prestige, or life becomes futile Unlike the Englishman who sees his lifework in being a tutor, these young hopefuls see in a tutorship merely apprentice work, the first step in the social ladder whose top rung is a full professorship. The third difficulty with these tutors is that they are, and again for the most part, men who have not finished their own university training and who, therefore, cannot attack the problem of becoming...
...Irving '06 to an instructorship of obstetrics; Dr. C. C. Sturgis to an instructorship in medicine; Mr. E. C. Kemble '14 to an instructorship in physics, Dr. K. C. Bowman to an instructorship in psychiatry, and Mr. Niles Carpenter, now an instructor in Social Ethics, to a tutorship in that subject Professor D. G. Lyon, D.D. '01, has been appointed honorary curator of the Semitic Museum...