Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should be subject to the examination with the exception of those who as Freshmen reached Groups I and II of the Rank List. These intellectual aristocrats, having proved their worth, should, if they have decided upon a field of concentration, be freed from the examination and assigned to a tutor. By this plan Freshmen, although necessarily subject to compulsion, will have an incentive before them, the possibility of ridding themselves from the examination by one year of application...
...personal element on the problem resolves itself into two main considerations. There must be more tutors and there must be better tutors. In order that the system may work to its best advantage no tutor should have more than five or six students assigned to him. He should be able to become not only acquainted but intimate with them all. He should meet them not once in two weeks but two or three times a week, and at least once a week he should meet all his students together for informal and sociable discussion. It is obvious that with larger...
This novel publication which has been called the "Silent Tutor" and may be purchased at the very nominal price of 10 cents a copy is evidently intended for the preparation of daily work rather than an intensive perusal before an examination. It is arranged so that it follows through the week's reading in several courses in German, Spanish, and Italian so as to approximately correspond to every individual requirement...
...publisher of the magazine, a well known Cambridge tutor, has vigorously defended in his introduction to the first issue his action in putting the periodical before undergraduates. "These following translations," he says, "have been prepared with great care. They follow the original text literally thus forming a valuable and legitimate help to the student in his effort to master the difficulties. The use of translations is recommended by numerous educators. They deplore that a student's time should be wasted in eternal thumbing of vocabulary and grammer. The use of correct translations guarantees correct solution of idioms and quick insight...
...Swarthmore the individual is the unit. And when the Harvard system is in force throughout the entire college the individual will be the unit of instruction, but he will come to understand his subject is three ways instead of one. Those three means are: through his courses, through his tutor, and through his own independent efforts...