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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tutors will be supplied with lists of the reading assigned to their students, and it is expected that the tutor will serve as a final check upon the reasonableness of the total assignments. Elective studies are so diverse that unusual combinations of courses may give a student a total amount of reading that is neither reasonable nor desirable...
...possible, the tutorial reading will be made a means of throwing light upon the course assignments, and of giving the student a unified view of the diverse subjects on which he will be reading. Essays on economic subjects are especially effective for this purpose...
While it will be the general policy on the Economics department to put the students absolutely upon their own resources during the Reading Period, a sufficient number of professors and tutors will be available for conferences, so that the work of no student should be hampered because of unforeseen difficulties...
...assigned during the Reading Period, and a knowledge of the ground covered in this way will be tested by the tutors at the opening of the second half-year. It is our intention that the tutors should introduce the needed element of elasticity in adjusting the work of their students so that each student will have a unified program with neither too much nor too little reading...
While most subjects may be read and understood at least in part, so that any student is able to carry on independent study, mathematics is a subject in which the failure to understand one point may make further progress imposible. For this reason even the graduate students to whom the privileges of the Reading Period will be extended may have access to their tutors when unable to grasp a point which is essential to a continuance of their work...