Word: responding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What percentage of you men respond to tutorial instruction and are genuinely benefited by it? (Apart from the practical consideration of preparation for generals...
...general field should boil down to the same thing. If this is not the case, there may well be something wrong with the examinations. Construing tutorial work in this broader sense, I cannot honestly say that any one of the students I have had has "failed to respond to tutorial instruction...
...other hand, the upper students respond so well to tutorials that I am constantly alarmed that they will ask me to direct their thinking into fields of sociology in which I have done no great amount of original work...
...inferior and mediocre students is wasted, but we must be very careful in defining what we mean by mediocre. Using course grades as a basis won't do; I know plenty of "C" men who, because of their personality and ability to think for themselves, make excellent tutees and respond well to tutorial work. On the whole, I should favor restricting tutorial instruction to Honors Candidates, as you suggest...
...fact that the budget has had to be cut over 18 percent, the Council apparently sees no reason why it should not continue to expend a total of $140 this year for the postage and printing of balloting cards which experience has shown less than half the class respond to. Out of the 760 ballots sent out last year to members of the Class of 1933, only 372 were returned. If there were ever an appropriate moment to abolish such an outworn system, if only for economy's sake, it is the present. The Council has refused to avail itself...