Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Colorado College, located at Colorado Springs, Col., has had seventy students in attendance during 1877. One half of them studied the Classics. Three professors and one tutor are giving instruction. A fine stone building is being erected on the college grounds, at the base of Pike's Peak, the finest campus in the country. The elevation of the location, not the building, is six thousand feet above the sea. Pike's Peak is over fourteen thousand feet high. Professor Kerr, the professor of geology, has recently discovered in the Garden of the Gods, within sight of the college grounds, some...
...unmusical soul who comes up stairs taking three steps to each word. And there is so great a fondness for attempting this latter kind of music manifest at all times, that it seems almost unaccountable that the modest Italian should not be permitted to rest beneath our windows and tutor the untuneful ear into a correct knowledge of its favorite airs...
...college tutors are human beings, although it is the fashion to regard them as diluted demons. Like other human beings, they are subject to prejudice. Like other human beings, they habitually communicate their prejudices to others. And if you make a bad impression upon the first ones with whom you come in contact, you will find that your bad reputation will spread as fast as the report of a Boston engagement. What is more, this bad reputation will cling to you through college. Your instructors will regard you as your conduct leads them to suppose that you regard them...
This is not necessarily the result of neglect of work, but of the positive inability of many to master or appreciate the study of mathematics; and students who cannot solve knotty problems themselves are obliged to hire tutors to do it for them; thus the training of the mind, the stock argument in favor of mathematics, becomes applicable to the tutor who does the work, but has no effect upon the student for whom it is intended...
...President told the following story of himself at the recent dinner of the New York Harvard Club. He said that, contrary to the usual course of nature, he was growing younger instead of older as years advanced. About twenty years ago, when he was a tutor and proctor, he was disturbed one night by a noise in the Yard, and, going out to see what was the matter, he heard a voice exclaim, "Here comes old Eliot." But last winter, walking into town one evening, he met two undergraduates, and heard one say to the other, when he had passed...