Word: method
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most common method of securing the lists is to copy the sheets posted for the assignment of lecture seats or sections. A possible solution suggested by the authorities was to instruct monitors to have these lists posted before and after classes only when they can be watched by the monitors. Some courses leave the sheets unwatched for long periods of time...
...deemed practical to adopt for all courses the method of History I, which mails section assignments to all its students. Officials pointed out that the college's clerical staff is already overworked, and the added task of mailing cards of every course twice a year would be inadvisable. Also pointed out was the probability that undergraduates would misplace their cards, resulting only in confusion. According to Reginald H. Phelps '30, dean of Records, monitors will be called together, at the beginning of each academic year and following midyears. At these meetings, they will be instructed to keep the lists secret...
Individual and small-scale tutoring existed until the 1930's in the Widow style', pursued by such men as E. Gordon Parker '96, now of the Parker-Cramer School, and Fletcher Briggs, whose method remained unchanged during the tutoring revolution...
...Heads-up" directness of the harmonic and rhythmic movement given this music clear, biting force. The texture is usually rigidly contrapuntal, and there is an unexcelled feeling for the directness of lines which, though they wander far tonally, are always clearly logical and purposeful. His method of mixing counterpoints which are rather free in their tonal relationship is balanced by a solidity of harmonic plan which, with frequent, strong cadences brings all voices to a common destination...
...when it made this statement two years ago. The same thing should have been shouted in four-letter monosyllables. Once upon a time, tutoring was understood to be a type of legitimate aid, granted to help a slow but honest student. Now, at Harvard, it is defined as a method of passing courses without working, without thinking, without learning...