Word: tutor
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...Department of History, Government and Economics adopted the scheme on trial, watched with interest by the Corporation and other departments of the University. Each student electing to concentrate his academic attention on courses in the History, Government and Economics field was to have the personal supervision of a tutor, appointed from the staff of the University especially for the purpose of aiding the individual...
Toward the close of his Freshman year each undergraduate is required to select a special field in which to concentrate his attention during his last three years. A tutor is assigned to him, who is responsible for the preparation of the candidate to try his divisional examinations in his Senior year. The tutor guides the choice of courses and supplements with personal instruction and advice the student's work in his courses. Reading assigned by the tutor is discussed at conferences at intervals of about two weeks. Occasional written work may be required...
...most departments the student is shifted from tutor to tutor, as he progresses from one portion of his field to another. By this plan he gains the advantage of the opinion of a number of men especially interested in his study...
...purpose of the tutorial plan to supersede instruction in courses or to provide an added burden for the student to carry through his college course. Work done out of courses with the tutor is intended to parallel the path followed by the lecturer and to supply the material necessarily omitted in the management of a large lecture course...
Partaking as it does of the nature of a special tutorial system, such a plan would have many of the peculiar tutorial advantages. Personal contact, appreciation of individual difficulties, all the special attention which a tutor or a supervisor can give and which a large course of necessity fails to supply, are perhaps more needed in the teaching of English than anywhere else. The practical difficulties of the suggestion, inadequacy of instructors and scarcity of student time, could be met by having the instructor meet his charges at considerable intervals, watching their development rather than furnishing them with constant precepts...