Word: burbank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Furthermore, Donald C. Sleeper '38 and Daniel E. Burbank '37, former varsity players and sponsors of the league, are holding it open to all men of all descriptions enrolled in the University and desirous of playing the game...
With Professor Burbank's announcement yesterday of the modifications in Tutorial instruc-the Economics Department is about to begin this into force, the lead which History gave in starting the "modified Tutorial" system had been followed, and indeed surpased. The developments which the Economics Departmen is about to begin this year are not epoch making, but they represent another step forward in the slow transition of the Tutorial System as it first existed at Harvard...
...originally introduced, the tutorial system involved a considerable amount of inefficiency and deficiency. The report of Dean Hanford a year ago was an excellent beginning of improvement; the History Department, the first to inaugurate the Modified Tutorial Plan, followed this lead in the spring. With Professor Burbank's announcement the Economics Department has contributed a third step towards the evolution of the Tutorial System at Harvard, thus bringing the intellectual development of the individual closer to the ideal...
...group "B" who are receiving modified tutorial will be watched care- fully by the Department. Ordinarily these will be those whose records indicate little possibility of an honors degree, but if they improve, they can be shifted to Plan "A" at any time. Burbank knows of several cases where men in the lower group have been allowed to become candidates for honors and have been successful...
...Burbank said that for about 20 years there had been a good deal of waste motion because the tutors had to spend so much time with men who were un-interested or incapable of gaining full benefit from tutorial instruction. This plan was started just before the depression, and the transition was speeded up at first due to financial reasons