Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard tutorial program chalked up its 65th birthday this year, it seems to be limping toward retirement. The idea of an intellectual challenge shared by a single student and his Faculty tutor is fading into oblivion. Tutorial instruction is now largely the duty of graduate teaching fellows, particularly in the larger departments, where professors spend more time in research and less time in individualized instruction with students. Most Faculty members now slip out of their tutorial responsibilities by advising a senior writing a thesis or--less frequently--reviewing a teaching fellow's reading list...
Although the professors who have to teach tutorials are the same professors who vote on legislation condemning departments' reliance on teaching-fellow-run tutorials, Faculty members are generally reluctant to follow up their votes with action. No professor claims to oppose the principle of teaching tutorials, and most would agree that professors are the best possible tutorial leaders, but research commitments and understaffed departments make Faculty-taught tutorials a rare commodity. Bowersock notes that the '60s brought a flood of graduate students to the campus, and as a result, some Faculty members view the phenomenon of a professor-led tutorial...
...sought to revive Faculty commitment to the tutorial and devised a plan, to take effect next fall, which will require every Faculty member to take part in tutorials, either by teaching an individual or group tutorial, advising a senior thesis or teaching a special seminar. Departments with predominantly teaching fellow-taught tutorials must offer these special seminars--all run by full-time professors but containing more students than a tutorial--which sophomore and junior concentrators may take for one term in lieu of tutorial. In addition, the legislation mandates a student-Faculty committee in each department to oversee its tutorial...
...department with the longest record of tutorial legislation violations--department members discussed tutorials at their last meeting this May. They agreed that Patrice L.R. Higonnet, head tutor in History, should "ask" History professors to "involve" themselves at some level in tutorials, perhaps nothing more than reviewing a teaching fellow's tutorial reading list and "occasionally" sitting in on his tutorials if the tutor has no objections, Higonnet says. "Nobody," Higonnet stressed, "will be made to teach a tutorial." Higonnet sent out a letter to departmental professors several weeks ago, urging them to participate in the tutorial program. Several responded, expressing...
...increasing equality of conditions ... from leading every member of the community to be wrapped up in himself... And no one can foretell into what disgrace and wretchedness they would plunge themselves lest they should have to sacrifice something of their own well-being to the prosperity of their fellow creatures...