Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...example, there is the matter of the "high table" which is promised for the Master and tutors. One wonders what place in the social scheme these faculty tables will occupy. Used as a permanent separation in the dining hall the "high table" might, as the CRIMSON has before pointed out, usurp a desirable contact between preceptor and student. But other use of the "high tables" could be made besides one that follows the Oxford-Cambridge idea of segregation of tutors and students. Occasional use of the "high table" as a gathering place of the House resident and non-resident tutors...
Donald Cary Williams A.M. '25, was appointed instructor in Philosophy and Tutor in the Division of Philosophy W. P. Maddox has been made an assistant in the Department of Government while Charles Washburn Putnam 11 of Yellow Springs, Ohio, is chosen instructor in Government and Tutor it the Division of History. Government and Economics. Putnam went through the Law School upon his graduation from the College and then took up graduate work in the Graduate School of Arts...
...feature of the Oxford tutorial system, as described by Mr. Frost in this morning's CRIMSON, will present a striking contrast to the predominant Harvard scheme. The majority of Oxford students those who are out for the Hon-ours Degree pursue their studies under the guidance of several tutors, each of whom is a specialist in some phase of the student's general field. The Harvard plan of having a single tutor guide the undergraduate throughout his entire course is the direct aultheals of this English method of instruction...
...tutorial instruction is to be regarded as primarily a plan of comprehensive preparation for a definite set of examinations the Harvard methods is unquestionably the more effective of the two. Tutors can block out a three years course of reading, assigning so much to the student each week, sufficient to cover an entire field of study. If the reading is well planned no dangerous interstices will be left in the student's knowledge; the tutor's comparative ignorance of certain phases of the subject can be covered over by judiciously prepared reading list...
...number of men, all of whom are doing special work in different periods, that the student of history has a fair chance of becoming imbued with a sympathetic or enthusiastic appreciation of more than one country or one age. Furthermore the student who passes from the hands of one tutor to another finds a greater premium placed on his own powers of initiative and coordination...