Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another disadvantage of an unbalanced tutorial staff is that it requires too many persons to tutor outside their own House. A Student Council report has stated that over forty per cent of the men in Houses have tutors with offices elsewhere. This is the result of one of two things. Either a man's field, if it is a small one, is not represented in any House, or the staff of the House is not well-rounded. Since one of the reasons for the House Plan was closer contact between tutor and tutee, the present situation is very undesirable...
There are, of course, some things to be gained by a specialized tutorial staff. These include community of interest among a large group of the members of the House, a library well-stocked in one particular field, and the encouragement of such scholastic extra-curricular activities as the Lowell House Scientific Society or the Dunster House Economic Society. If there was not a dominant field of concentration in these Houses then possibly these organizations might not exist. Unfortunately the disadvantages of an unbalanced staff outweigh these benefits...
Attacking the tutoring schools, Arthur N. Holcombe, professor of Government, said last night that the examinations, as made out by a staff committee, were especially designed to favor the student who does his own work...
...Bessemer steel is mainly due to a man with a jocular drawl, who likes to fish, take photographs of steel mills, put his feet on his desk. His name is Herbert W. Graham and J. & L. got him fresh from Lehigh University in 1914. He once told his research staff that, instead of 200 bright ideas a year, he would rather have two ideas that worked. In 1934 smart Metallurgist Graham persuaded J. & L. to let him build a complete miniature pilot mill to try out new metallurgical ideas. In this mill he developed a new way of getting manganese...
...plan next year will incorporate a system of competitive essays, to be integrated with the work of students in courses such as English A. The staff of councilors of the Committee is working on the details of the plan at the present time, Buck said...