Word: tutereating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think it is necessary to speak of more serious things. Someone from Harvard has been sending little epistles to my Tuter here in Wadham. So now I hasten to express my genuine satisfaction of all that is Oxford including the high walls on which are cemented broken beer bottles, the Oxford girls and their black stockings and bicycles, the cold water in the hot showers, the Englishman's nonchalance and the bulls in Christ Church meadow. Certainly there are but few better places in the world where thinking is so high, romance so sweet, history so well preserved and living...
...play is to be produced in the Eliot House Dining Hall. Special permission has been obtained from John M Cotter, head tuter of the House to include girls in the cast and to allow the public admission to the production. A note of satire is to be put in the play by dressing the doctors, who do a ballet in academic robes...
...would suggest a system which would award an honors degree, with tutorial instruction and general examinations covering the field as at present, and a pass degree, the candidates for which would meet with a tuter to read and discuss only these parts of the field of concentration which really interest him. The aim would be the aronsal and development of a genuine interest in one or a few aspects of a field without the necessity of reading for general examinations...
...chief defect in tutorial work is its conflict with courses. Every student regards courses as more important (because of grades). Hence, the tuter cannot require very much written work or very much reading. But as a supplement to courses, the plan at present, especially with the aid of the Houses, seems to me to be working out very well. Probably it will never work at its best until grades in courses, hour exams, and course requirements are reduced or abolished...
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