Word: blackmere
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Student Council reacted a month ago. It unanimously approved "Tutorial at Harvard," the report of a subcommittee headed by Donald L. M. Blackmer '52. The Blackmer Report took the middle and expensive view. Seniors should receive individual thesis attention, it says, but the five man limit on the groups must remain...
...feature of the Blackmer Report, not found in the two faculty proposals, is the heavy emphasis on essay writing as a part of a tutorial. The General Education Report had said...
Donald L. M. Blackmer '52 headed the Council committee...
...financial possibility of installing the Blackmer Plan--providing individual tutorial for honors seniors and five-man groups for the others--is surprisingly good. If every professor in each of the five main departments were willing to undertake a full tutorial load, only the Social Relations department would still need more money for a tutoring staff. Social Relations is a special case for two reasons. The number of concentrators in this department has grown rapidly during the last few years, and money allotments from the University have not kept pace. Also Social Relations always employs a large group of guest lecturers...
There are now two possible sources for more tutorial funds. The Provost receives over $100,000 each year unrestricted from the Harvard Fund. Further, the Blackmer Report declares, "this Committee feels the need of a good tutorial system so acutely that it as ready, with University backing, to organize a student fund-raising group." While this shows well-placed, sincere enthusiasm, Harvard undergraduates should not be forced to beg in order to receive a good education. Although the University always has more worthwhile projects than money, large scale tutorial expansion nonetheless deserves top priority...