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Tutorial

noun

A session of intensive tuition given by a tutor to an individual or to a small number of students.

adjective

Of or relating to tutors or tutoring.

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"Tutorial" Quotes from Famous Books

... lives, their nurse {79} or tutor leaves,—the group which, in stronger and humbler temper, protected them in their first weakness, and formed them to the first laws of their being. But the poppy casts these tutorial leaves away. It is the finished picture of impatient and luxury-loving youth,—at first too severely restrained, then casting all restraint away,—yet retaining to the end of life unseemly and illiberal signs of its once compelled submission ...

— Proserpina, Volume 1 - Studies Of Wayside Flowers • John Ruskin

... penetrated the far, cold spaces of interstellar niceness, for this new patron consisted of no less than Roderick Magsworth Bitts, Junior, escaped in a white "sailor suit" from the Manor during a period of severe maternal and tutorial preoccupation. ...

— Penrod • Booth Tarkington

... 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 people of that enlightened section, have always possessed the learning necessary to appreciate, and the philanthropy implied in the wish to dispel, the benighted ignorance of all other quarters of the world; ...

— Western Characters - or Types of Border Life in the Western States • J. L. McConnel

... irreconcilable requirements. In our modern systems of education we are trying to respond to them as best we may, teaching in class and at the same time giving each pupil as much personal attention as we can. The tutorial system, now employed in Princeton University, is an interesting example of our efforts as applied to the ...

— A Librarian's Open Shelf • Arthur E. Bostwick