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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...
Speeding up the rate of its transition from a full to a modified tutorial system, the Economics Department will give only about 65 per cent of its concentrators full tutorial this year, and a small group will get practically none at all, Harold H. Burbank, professor of Economics and chairman of that Department told the CRIMSON yesterday...
...this first group, all of the students are not necessarily honors candidates, and Burbank said that roughly 15 to 20 percent this year will not be honors candidates but will receive the full instruction. Thus the division between groups will not be made on a pure "honors" basis, as in some other fields, but rather on the individual capabilities of the concentrators...
...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