Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like History, the division of Economics concentrators into Plans "A" and "B" will not be on a hard and fast honors basis and the actual division in Economics will be made after a study of the indivual cases. A man who is a straight "C" student but who wants full tutorial will get it, if the Department can provide it financially. The division in Economics appears to be more liberal than that in History, for nearly one-third of the Plan "A" men will not be honors candidates...
...group "B" who are receiving modified tutorial will be watched care- fully by the Department. Ordinarily these will be those whose records indicate little possibility of an honors degree, but if they improve, they can be shifted to Plan "A" at any time. Burbank knows of several cases where men in the lower group have been allowed to become candidates for honors and have been successful...
...plan is not new this year, but further experimentation is being carried along in it. With no lines definitely drawn, the department does not want to jump to some theoretically satisfactory division between groups, but wants to find that line through actual practical experimenting...
Burbank said that for about 20 years there had been a good deal of waste motion because the tutors had to spend so much time with men who were un-interested or incapable of gaining full benefit from tutorial instruction. This plan was started just before the depression, and the transition was speeded up at first due to financial reasons
...cases of recent students who lived in the new Harvard House Plan units, the Directory lists the alumnus's House connection as well as his class in College...