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Last fall, following the blueprints of Dean Bender's committee and Donald Blackmer's Student Council report, the College launched compulsory group tutorial in the five major fields, and crossed fingers. As the first months passed, some disturbing reports came from the Houses. Some non-honors men said they never bothered preparing for the sessions, and were sure their tutors didn't either. Others said even the preparation they did was not worth the time it took. Muttering about saving money and releasing tutors for work on their doctoral theses, they suggested that non-honors candidates in Government, Social Relations...
...number presently unsatisfied with tutorial is larger than had been hoped, the nature of their dissents is not sufficient reason to recommend that the departments make non-honors tutorial voluntary. Most of the criticisms from the dissenters mention practices that stray from the advice of the Bender and Blackmer reports. Where the blueprints have been followed, students are satisfied. A few changes in the procedure of the tutorial meetings can change much of the present criticism to praise...
Robert Montgomery Presents (Mon. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Joseph Conrad's Victory, with Sidney Blackmer, Margaret Phillips...
According to Alan R. Blackmer, instructor in English at Andover and chairman of the six-man committee, the report will be circulated to as many secondary schools and colleges as possible. "I am hopeful that our report will bring about some much needed educational changes, although I realize that any drastic alterations in our present system will have to come gradually," Blackmer said yesterday...
Other members of the committee in addition to Bundy and Blackmer are E. Harris Harbison, professor of History at Princeton, Charles Seymore, Jr., associate professor of the History of Art at Yale, and Henry W. Bragdon and Dr. Wendell Taylor of Exeter and Lawrenceville respectively...