Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...form a more valuable training, and of breeding the idea that for entrance into the "society of educated men" the securing of stipulated grades in a certain number of courses is all that is necessary. And finally, the extent of these faults is diminished by the method of the tutor...
This is the means which enables a student to prepare systematically for his comprehensive examinations. It is the tutor, coming into personal contact with the student, at stated intervals during the last three years of his college life, who endeavors to guide and help him in his work. It is this corps of experienced teachers that President Lowell describes as "carrying out the conception that the unit, the only true unit, in education is not the course, but the student himself." Without the tutorial system general examinations are but a test of knowledge acquired during a frenzied year or even...
...best learn those facts which he must know in order to generalize? certainly not through a survey of his entire field under the guidance of a tutor. Only through the medium of courses, dealing with single phases of study, will the student best acquire that fundamental knowledge of details which is essential to the best development and cultivation of the mind. Only through them can he discipline his mind so that he may best grapple with the problems of life. The two systems, though totally different in principle, may be so adjusted that they will form a consistent whole, embodying...
...conclusion, therefore, we advocate the extension of the tutorial system along certain definite lines. First, gradually increase the number of tutors where this is essential to the most efficient administration of the system. Second give to the distribution of courses a real significance by providing that part of the tutor's work shall be guidance and suggestion in foreign fields. Third, provide a more natural system of grading by the use of less artificial standards. And last, stimulate interest in tutorial work by making it part of the basis for scholastic standing
...evident that under this system the Sophomore year will have great importance. During it the tutor will have to enter into close contact with the student. He will have to show him the opportunities and the true value of scholarly work. How few students now realize the wonderful resources of our university! The Library, the laboratories and the museums are appreciated only by advanced students. The average undergraduate never speaks to a Professor except of strict necessity. Toward the middle of his Senior year, with ominous divisionals steadily approaching, he suddenly wakes to his peril and moans for his wasted...