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...years ago, freedom in selection of courses was granted, more than 300 Freshmen turned to advanced courses. Forty per cent of the grades received by these men were A or B, and most took survey courses, like Economics A, in the field in which they later concentrated. As Dean Leighton suggested in 1935, this condition demanded, and still demands, increased advisory responsibility, in order to maximize the mature scholastic interest...
...that University Hall has convinced the departments of the necessity of what Dean Leighton calls "Freshman tutorial," it is pertinent to examine if and how it can succeed. Placing Yardlings under a tutor for advanced work does not mean that they should do tutorial in the Sophomoric sense. With four courses and sometimes English A, and the necessary balancing of extracurricular activities with the academic diet, even bright Freshmen who find courses dull and repetitious, carry, nevertheless, a full program. Therefore the purpose of "tutorial" should be only to teach future concentrators the meaning and significance of tutorial. Opening their...
Finally able to bring about a plan which he has long advocated in his Annual Reports to the President, Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Freshmen, yesterday announced that the privilege of tutorial guidance would be available to such Freshmen as had distinguished themselves scholastically in the first half-year and desired to do outside work in their probable field of concentration...
...Only Freshmen who are on the Dean's List will ordinarily be considered." Leighton said, "and these wishing to apply should register before March 1 with the Committee on the Choice of Electives...
Emphasizing that the plan was in no way intended as a solution for maladjustment in the Freshman Class, which is much less common in the first three rank groups than elsewhere, Leighton explained that the project was an extension of a system already in operation in some fields, notably the Classics, which had been endorsed by the Faculty Council last...