Word: acquaintance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Designed to acquaint concentrators with background material in their field, sophomore tutorial generally draws the least stimulating men in any department. Often their task is made unnecessarily burdensome by the lethargic attitude of their tutees. Moreover, the exceptional student in a tutorial group is just as frustrated by the lack of interest of his fellows...
Senator John F. Kennedy '40 will be the keynote speaker at a meeting this Sunday to acquaint the public with the work of the United Negro College Fund. His subject will be "The Current Challenges to American Colleges...
...book's purpose is to prevent the freshmen from wasting money on clothes before his arrival at Harvard and to acquaint him with service facilities in the Square and the Student Council...
...worker, which the student must meet as if he were the responsible administrator. This method, it is true, turns out perfected pragmatists who are able to deal with the problems at hand efficiently and intelligently. But does the Case Method instill anything beyond a grasp of technique? Does it acquaint the student with a body of knowledge and an understanding of business-past and future, as well as present? Does it expose him to ideas and theories as well as facts and situations? Does it, in short, give the graduate the intellectual tools that will produce not only his well...
...some departments, as in English where virtually all tutors are graduate students and in History where graduate students make up 75-80 percent of the tutorial staff, it would seem essential that some effort be made to acquaint tutors with the basic workings of the system. Briefing sessions should be held at which professors who are successful and popular as tutors explain how they go about planning and executing a tutorial program. Attention should also be given to more mechanical aspects, aside from mere record keeping...