Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...humor. German it is at every turn; in its satire of the petty routine and stiff-backed etiquette of the modern Pumper-nickel that Meyer-Foerster calls Sachsen-Karlsburg; in its glimpses of the life of the students at Heidelberg; and, above all, in its two sentimentalists--the old tutor, Juettner, dreaming over the university to which he is to return, and the young prince, idealizing in the boyish delight of new freedom, all that he finds there. It is German, too, when it turns the old sentimentalist into the tipsy sharer in student routs and makes the young prince...
Four or five of the parts, like Mr. Layman's old tutor, Juettner, Mr. Perrin's waiter translated from inn to court, Mrs. Barnes-Hochberg's Kaethie of the tavern, and in a little less degree Mr. Schurig's mincing and mealy-mouthed chamberlain, were admirably taken. The players had sense of character, carried it to the audience, and acted generally with freedom alike from self-consciousness and what in some instances was an acquired speech. With Mr. Layman's Juettner, indeed, illusion never flagged and it was the true illusion of the old man's sentiment. Skillful...
After his graduation in 1881, he accepted the position of tutor in Latin and Greek at St. Mark's School, and two years later he became headmaster of the school. In 1884 he returned to the University as a student in classical philology. In 1887, after receiving the degrees of A.M. and Ph.D., he was appointed an instructor of Greek in the University, holding this position until, in 1891, he was promoted to an assistant professorship in Latin and Greek. Five years later he was made assistant professor of Latin, and the same year was chosen by the Corporation marshal...