Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...survey, or in the experience and technique that come from exploring all angles of a single problem. Whichever the answer, it is certainly more in the liberal spirit to allow the individual to make his own choice between the Council's proposed test tube culture courses and the latter method...
...report emphasized the frequent lack of intellectual stimulation, which is essential if the tutorial system is to work properly. Thesis writing was considered to be an excellent method of helping the student express and develop his own ideas on a particular subject. "The challenge of different methods of treating similar materials, the challenge simply of dealing with a great mind rather than with charts and textbooks, should contribute immeasurably to this emancipation of the student from his specialty...
...begin with, it would tend to place an unfair proportion of the burden on this group, and furthermore it would prevent the building up of that large reservoir of purchasing power which is so essential to a healthy industrial economy after the war. Compulsory saving is clearly the method that should be used, for it not only solves the present problem of inflation but the post-war problem of purchasing power as well. If the great mass of the people emerge from this war virtually penniless, living from hand to mouth, just where is the demand to come from which...
With tutors drawn from busy or simply disinterested Faculty members, and students faced with heavy accelerated course reading, the traditional individual supervision and discussion probably cannot continue. But by some method of small group meetings, such as the very successful inter-departmental conferences held in Eliot House this year, the hours of these hard-pressed professors and instructors would be judiciously used, and the basic framework of tutorial would be retained. Students of all rank groups should be willing to do a more evenly standardized volume of work with the possibility of a two-course reduction reward. This scheme...
...planning to graduate next February or June, the absence of supervised tutorial this summer would be an insuperable burden. If limited to Seniors this summer and further restricted to men in Group IV or better next fall, the tutorial system in reality will have practically vanished. The group discussion method suggested for the next few months, while not a panacea nor even a proper substitute for the old plan, might well be expanded into a full wartime tutorial system. The possibilities of this will be discussed later. Right now it is essential that some arrangement be drawn up to permit...