Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their choice of a field of concentration. President Lowell will give a talk, covering the ground generally; Dr. R. M. Eaton, head tutor in the department of Philosophy, will speak on the relations of the student to his tutor; and Assistant Dean Delmar Leighton '19 will explain in detail the steps the Freshman must take to enroll in a field of concentration, as well as the making out of a plan of study...
...report takes up in great detail the various matters of which it treats. Its full text is being reprinted in the April issue of the Advocate. An extract of its more important passages follows: Section I approves the new limitation of enrolment by which the number of new Freshmen admitted will be reduced to about 825 or 850. It is stated that this reduction will go toward improving instruction in the large introductory courses by reducing slightly the size of each class or section. The increase in tuition from $250 to $300 now in effect is already being applied...
...tools and the technique of their subject. Those who take a course merely for distribution have a cultural motive. But when both groups are subjected to the same methods of instruction, as they are at present, the cultural motive is subordinated or entirely lost in a mass of technical detail, since professors of science are naturally more interested in the first class of students than in the second...
Section V takes up the tutorial system in great detail. The committee regards the system as basically sound, but believes it has certain faults arising from individual practices on the part of tutors and students which should be recognized. A tabular study of departments brings out the fact that there are too few tutors in certain departments particularly in English and Romance languages. The report deplores the tendency of certain tutors to coach students specifically for the examinations, as well as that tendency sometimes noted for the tutor to devote the conference hour to lecture practice. It is recommended that...
...complete discussion of the report will have to wait upon its publication in full in the Advocate. To the several problems which the Committee has suggested the CRIMSON will return in detail later. For the present it invites communications from members of the University concerning any phase of the report, and all such communications will be published in this column...