Bristed, writing of Cambridge, says:  “When, therefore, a boy, or, as we should call him, a young man, leaves his school, public or private, at the age of eighteen or nineteen, and ‘goes up’ to the University, he necessarily goes up to some particular college, and the first academical authority he makes acquaintance with in the regular order of things is the College Tutor.  This gentleman has usually taken high honors either in classics or mathematics, and one of his duties is naturally to lecture.  But this by no means constitutes the whole, or forms the most important part, of his functions.  He is the medium of all the students’ pecuniary relations with the College.  He sends in their accounts every term, and receives the money through his banker; nay, more, he takes in the bills of their tradesmen, and settles them also.  Further, he has the disposal of the college rooms, and assigns them to their respective occupants.  When I speak of the College Tutor, it must not be supposed that one man is equal to all this work in a large college,—­Trinity, for instance, which usually numbers four hundred Undergraduates in residence.  A large college has usually two Tutors,—­Trinity has three,—­and the students are equally divided among them,—­on their sides, the phrase is,—­without distinction of year, or, as we should call it, of class.  The jurisdiction of the rooms is divided in like manner.  The Tutor is supposed to stand in loco parentis; but having sometimes more than a hundred young men under him, he cannot discharge his duties in this respect very thoroughly, nor is it generally expected that he should.”—­Five Years in an Eng.  Univ., Ed. 2d, pp. 10, 11.

TUTORIAL.  Belonging to or exercised by a tutor or instructor.

Even while he is engaged in his “tutorial” duties, &c.—­Am.  Lit.  Mag., Vol.  IV. p. 409.

TUTORIC.  Pertaining to a tutor.

A collection of two was not then considered a sure prognostic of rebellion, and spied out vigilantly by tutoric eyes.—­Harvardiana, Vol.  III. p. 314.

TUTORIFIC.  The same as tutoric.

  While thus in doubt they hesitating stand,
  Approaches near the Tutorific band.
    Yale Tomahawk, May, 1852.

  “Old Yale,” of thee we sing, thou art our theme,
  Of thee with all thy Tutorific host.—­Ibid.

TUTORING FRESHMEN.  Of the various means used by Sophomores to trouble Freshmen, that of tutoring them, as described in the following extract from the Sketches of Yale College, is not at all peculiar to that institution, except in so far as the name is concerned.