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...Ayers Brinser, Senior Tutor of the Economics Department, said that the plan is designed to make tutorial count toward a degree. The orals will be administered by the student's tutor and two other tutors from the House. Brinser emphasized that the plan should bring the educational function of the Department more firmly into the House system...
...very different indeed. The curriculum was not worthy of a serious person's attention. I was concentrating on bio-chemical sciences and had to spend more time in laboratories and in class work generally than most of my colleagues. But all of these, Paul Sweezy, Gene Bolio, Ayres Brinser, Don Field, made it a point of pride not to worry about our academic work, though some of us managed to do quite well in it and to consider that The CRIMSON was our major educative enterprise. Indeed I could say of myself that I fied to The CRIMSON because...
...problem of getting the right personnel worried faculty and student alike until after the April Overseers meeting when the College announced the first four Burr Tutors. They were: Ayers Brinser '31. Lecurer on Economics (Kirkland); Daniel S. Cheever '39, assistant professor of Government. (Winthrop): John J. Conway, instructor in General Education, (Eliot): and Joseph C. Palamountain. Jr., assistant professor of Government, (Adams...
Ferry believes that "by the first of November students will be entirely at case and appreciate 'dinner-table deanery.' Brinser summed up the tutor's view: "The office of Senior Tutor is not a job of control by an attempt to find a way of carrying out relatively new ideas." Really this is the House reaching up to the Dean's Office, not vice versa; essentially the faculty has broadened the definition of education to include disciplinary functions with a teacher's educational duties...
...Brinser is the author of several books and has served as consultant to the National Resources Planning Board, the Office of Price Administration and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. He has been teaching and conducting research at the College since 1948, and received a Ph.D. degree in 1951. He is now Acting Secretary of the Graduate School of Public Administration...