Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Cyril Malcolm Hollander, Boston English High School and Private Tutor...
...License of ye Overseers," nor could he be a member of the "Artillery or traine-Band." About 1650 several special orders of the College were passed: "No Scholar shall buy sell, or exchange anything to ye value of six-pence without ye allowance of his parents, guardians or tutors. The scholars shall never use their Mother-tongue except in public exercises of oratory, where they are called to make them in English. No scholar whatever, without the acquaintance and leave of ye President and his Tutor shall be present at any of ye Publike Civil meetings or Concourse of people...
...present day liberality in regard to attendance at morning prayers it is interesting to look back over the struggles and student rebellions which have occurred concerning the matter of Chapel attendance in the last two hundred years. At first religious services were held by each class in its tutor's room; afterwards all students came together in Commons Hall or the library, and later an apartment in the old Harvard Hall was used as a chapel. In 1744 Holden Chapel was built and for two years served as a place of worship, until the new Harvard Hall was erected...
...became a common occurrence to steal the Bible and in November 1822 a great disturbance was made by the Juniors because the Tutor who officiated detained them too long. April 1823, another uprising took place among the Seniors. Yet it was not for four years after this that it was voted, in order to secure greater respect for the service, that, in the absence of the President, prayers should be performed by the Professor of Divinity...
Under the system the work of the tutors will be to guide students in their respective fields of study, to assist them in co-ordinating the knowledge which they have derived from different courses, and to stimulate in them the reading habit. The work of tutors will be entirely independent of the conduct of courses, and the tutors as such will have no control over the work or the grades of any student in any college course. Their assistance will naturally be of indirect benefit to the student in his work in individual courses, but their main function will...