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...Biology Department has succeeded in finding tutors for 26 of the 35 students who applied for its new, non-credit tutorial program. According to Ted Feder, chairman of undergraduate chairs in Biology, at least some of the other nine will also be able to take advantage of the program...
...History Department has always required sophomores to participate in a non-credit group tutorial in addition to regular course work. Before 1961, a history concentrator who was in Group III or better and had received a satisfactory grade in his sophomore generals, was eligible for junior and senior honors tutorial. The Department admitted a few Group IV students into the honors program but in general no student below Group III could be a candidate for honors as a junior. If he showed exceptional improvement during his junior year, a history major might be allowed to write a thesis...
...tell a Department in another area how to run its internal affairs. The argument that in matters of tutorial English is fundamentally different from the Social Sciences seems especially strong if one remembers that for several years the English Department has been able to offer a useful and successful non-credit, non-Honors tutorial program, something which the Social Science fields, in general, have not been able to do. Nevertheless, the purpose of the Gill plan was not to insure that every student be tutored; the plan was aimed instead at allowing any student performing satisfactory work to make...
...accomodate the disappointed auditors Pennington is covering the same material in a non-credit seminar sponsored by Adams House...
Some of the scholars offered non-credit seminars for Radcliffe students; others occasionally dropped into the dormitories for meals. In the first case, contact was limited, in the second, superficial. The great majority of the undergraduates never met any of the Institute members and never evinced any interest in doing so. If, as Mrs. Bunting hopes, the scholars are to inspire the students by their example, they will have to be linked more closely to the College. Perhaps as the House system takes shape a few will be able to move into Radcliffe residences with their families, but this...