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TUTOR (Lat. tutor, guardian, tueri, t...

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 488 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TUTOR (See also:Lat. tutor, See also:guardian, tueri, to See also:watch over, protect)  , properly a legal See also:term, borrowed from See also:Roman See also:law, for a See also:guardian of an See also:infant (see ROMAN LAW and INFANT) . Apart from this usage, which survives particularly in Scots law, the word is chiefly current in an educational sense of a teacher or instructor . It is thus specifically applied to a See also:fellow of a See also:college at a university with particular functions, connected especially with the supervision of the undergraduate members of the college . These functions differ in various See also:universities . Thus, at See also:Oxford, a fellow, who is also a See also:tutor, besides lecturing, or taking his See also:share of the See also:general teaching of the college, has the supervision and responsibility for a certain number of the undergraduates during their See also:period of See also:residence; at See also:Cambridge the tutor has not necessarily any teaching functions to perform, but is more concerned with the economic and social welfare of the pupils assigned to his care . In See also:American universities the term is applied to a teacher who is subordinate to a See also:professor, his See also:appointment being for a See also:year or a term of years .

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