Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Judging from the results of a poll conducted last week by the CRIMSON, only a small amount of dissatisfaction exists among students who have used the University-run Bureau of Supervisors this year...
...Bureau, which has become the most important source of special help for undergraduates since the Faculty imposed its ban on commercial tutoring schools last spring, has grown into a large scale organization in the past year; it was felt that the time had come to find out what students think of its services...
...mimeographed questionnaire, prepared by the CRIMSON, was sent to the more than 500 men who have used the Bureau, asking them how much help they had received, how good the teaching had been, and whether or not the Supervisors had lived up to their aim of teaching methods of work rather than cramming examination facts...
...included with the questionnaire, the percentage of returns was not large. Almost three quarters of the poll sheets were not mailed back. Of the 127 answers received, 19 could not be counted in the tabulations usually because the student felt that he had not had enough help from the Bureau to be a fair judge...
Seventeen undergraduates were more or less dissatisfied with the tutoring given by the Supervisors. The remaining 91 were either whole-heartedly in favor, or at least disinclined to criticize. Seventeen men attributed their improvement entirely to the Bureau, ten others felt that it was due to increased work on their part, while an overwhelming 45 thought that both had helped...