Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...better proof of the vitality of the system may be found, however, in the matter in which emphasis has shifted of late from the problem of building a tutorial system to that of keeping one. And even to Mr. Peterkin, the latest commentator, this does not mean that the goal has been achieved, that all that remains to be done is to nurse and fondle any full-fledged academic child. It means rather that in the opinion of the tutors, as in that of the undergraduates and in that of the Faculty, the progress that has been made suffices...
...easy to bear with Mr. Peterkin, for he is but elaborating a problem that has been at the core of the system and its administration ever since their inception. It is in the remedies suggested that difference of opinion will creep in. Mr. Peterkin proposes two, in one of which the tutorial system is to be regarded, as training school for professors, with the better tutors allowed to combine the two kinds of work, with gradual promotion to professorial ranks no their goal...
...other plan advanced in the article is one by which tutors would be graded among themselves. Prospects and, it is to be presumed, remuneration would be graded similarly. This would solve the problem in so far as it concerns a need for ambition. The tutor could strive to elevate himself in the standing. As far as the actual compensation is concerned, even his suggestion is driven back to the meltable plea for more funds, The Harvard Fund is symptomatic of a desirable change that is indeed taking place in the collection of funds for the University, but how long...
...tutorial relationship as Mr. Peterkin suggests, it would be only reasonable for any student to rebel. The difficulty of securing tutors with the necessary intellectual equipment for their task is certainly serious enough without adding to it the qualifications of character, tact, or sympathy with the student's personal problems. The individual problem, similarly, is such that there seems no adequate reason for adding to the tutor's responsibility over his charges...
...certain demarcation between intelligence and integrity. A proctor is a proctor and a teacher is a teacher, and confusion of their respective spheres would be nothing short of disastrous. Any suggestion that concerns the question of the tutor's intellectual leadership of the student must be welcomed. That the problem of securing and of keeping men competent to undertake the mental salvation of undergraduates has not as yet been completely solved need hardly be stated. But the problem of finding men who can also undertake moral and spiritual salvation, who can mould character and standard's of ethical along with...