1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
TUTOR (Lat. tutor, guardian, lueri, to watch over, protect), properly a legal term, borrowed from Roman law, for a guardian of an 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 fellow of a college at a university with particular functions, connected especially with the supervision of the undergraduate members of the college. These functions differ …
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