Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Which of the three, then does the tutorial system help? One would hardly suggest the second or third. Do the tutors really help the first? Not unless the object of education has really been changed. The system under which most of the professors now at Harvard were educated was one which involved learning, by self-wiled energy. The tutorial system at Harvard today has as its object a species of synthetic feeling, whereby the tutor puts an intellectual yeast-cake into the brew of the student's thoughts as an aid to mental fermentation. The test of potency is applied...
...twofold, to turn the student's interest to the mastery of the subject instead of the accumulation of credits in courses, and to teach him to analyze and correlate his knowledge of its various parts. To guide him and help him in doing this he is assigned to a tutor whom he meets at intervals more and more frequent each year of his college life. His tutor is designated as soon as he selects his field of concentration near the end of his Freshman year, and through the three succeeding years of college he has a teacher to care...
...deplored the present over-emphasis on the grading system; and it pointed out that as long as the College office does not recognize the tutorial work performed by a student in judging his scholastic rank, there is no motive urging him to do the reading suggested by his tutor. The result is that the tutorial system tends to lead a cramped and somewhat unhealthy existence. Once the truth of this observation becomes apparent, the way is open for constructive thought...
...plan must be devised whereby a student's scholastic standing depends as much upon his tutorial work as upon his course record. One such suggests itself: Have each tutor hand in to the office at the end of the half year a report on each of his students--satisfactory," "barely satisfactory," or "unsatisfactory." When the time comes for the question of academic discipline or honors count this tutorial record as fully as one or two courses. Extend the number of satisfactory grades and reports required, so that no man who does totally unsatisfactory tutorial work can remain in good scholastic...
...awarding the prize more importance will be attached to the substance than to the form of the argument. Further information concerning this prize-contest may be obtained at Widener 774, or from any Tutor. Public announcement of the date and place of the oral arguments will be made later