Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Basil Rathbone (the tutor in The Swan) gives his usual excellent account. Of Miss Ferguson the judgments were mixed. Some thought she did very well, others very badly. Nearly all agreed that the venture as a whole was of indefinite consequence...
Partiality to the clever student, over-emphasis on the field of concentration, mechanization of the tutorial conference, and lack of sympathy between the tutor and his advisee, are situations which may arise under the system and which Dr. Demos deplores. His observations, however, are all of a constructively critical nature with the view of correcting the faults of the system while it is still in the formative stage...
...With every new year the tutor is confronted with a miscellaneous assortment of advisees. Impartial to all at first, he finds himself quickly discriminating in favor of those students who show some special competence in their field of concentration; with the others--the average students or worse--he makes a gallant effort and then gives it up. These last have chosen their special subject not because they were interested in it in any particular sense; they had to choose something, poor fellows, and they chose the subject which sounded nice or easy or looked vaguely attractive on the program...
...Presumably, students who are unable to make any technical advance in their subjects or to go any further than its general aspects as expounded in the standard courses will always be with us. And the tutor can be of very great service to such men if he tries to approach them not from the angle of their particular field but on the common ground of general culture. I fail to see why tutorial instruction should be confined within the limits of the field of concentration; after all, the tutor is a teacher of the student as a student...
...tutor has an unrivalled opportunity to cultivate in the student the habit of reading good books. This is a declining practice these days; the public rears newspapers or magazines or the novels of the day, but more often it does not read at all; it looks at motion pictures, or it listens to the gramophone or the radio, or it occupies its leisure with action, such as driving or camping or dancing. If the college could enter a wedge into the customs of the country by instilling at least in the student the habit of reading good books, it would...