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The decline of authority, whether papal, philosophic, kingly, or tutorial, is essentially one phenomenon; in each of its aspects a leaning towards free action is seen alike in the working out of the change itself, and in the new forms of theory and practice to which the change has given birth.
The system of University Tutorial Classes originated by this Association has been based upon an ideal of citizenship, and not primarily upon a determination to acquire knowledge, although it was clearly seen that vague aspirations towards good citizenship without the harnessing of all available knowledge to its cause would be futile.
My dear Father, I have been engaged to take two pupils for nine months of the next year. They are brothers, whose father, a Mr. Stoddart, resides at Cambridge. I am to give them an hour a day, each; and am to receive a hundred guineas. It gives me great pleasure to be able even in this degree to relieve you from the burden of my expenses here. I begin my tutorial labours to-morrow.
The proof of this lies in the fact that, after they have striven together for years in Tutorial Classes, they ask for no recognition in fact they have declined it when it has been offered and have devoted their powers to voluntary civic work and the work of the associations or unions to which they belong, as well as in very many instances, to the spreading of education throughout the districts in which they live.
They might acquire property legally recognized as their own when their masters expressly permitted them to work or trade on their personal accounts, though not otherwise. Manumission was restricted only by the requirement of court approval; and slaves employed by their masters in tutorial capacity were declared ipso facto free.
Let me add, however, that if he is a man of ramshackle tendencies, the offices of drill-sergeant, cricket-referee and supervisor of table-etiquette which he has to combine with his ordinary tutorial duties will in time become so irksome especially if it is his lot to fall upon inferior schools that he will be disposed to sacrifice all his pecuniary advantages and chances of unlimited promotion for the sake of a little peace of mind and unhampered leisure.
Idleness was a rare vice; and New England girls to their honor be it spoken have seldom resembled "the lilies of the field," in aught, save the fairness of their complexions! They have never displayed much squeamishness about work: and if they could not benefit the rising generation in a maternal, were willing to make themselves useful in a tutorial capacity.
"The cat was worshipped as a god by the ancient Egyptians," I remarked. "But this one, Monsieur," she said in breathless reassurance, "has only one eye." I would sooner talk to Antoinette than the tutorial staff of Girton. If she woke up one morning and found she had a mind she would think it a disease.
His keen eyes went from me to my mother and then back again to me. "What has happened?" he asked. "What has not happened?" wailed my mother. "Agostino is possessed." He knit his brows. "Possessed?" quoth he. "Ay, possessed possessed of devils. He has been violent. He has broken poor Rinolfo's leg." "Ah!" said Gervasio, and turned to me frowning with full tutorial sternness.
For Edward, who foresaw that the brunt of tutorial oppression would have to be borne by him, was sulky, monosyllabic, and determined to be as negatively disagreeable as good manners would permit.
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