Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...applies to the bureau for help will be assigned to a member qualified to help him in the particular field of study with which he is having difficulty. Consultations will then be arranged as often as the advisor thinks desirable. If it is believed that the student needs detailed tutoring in a specific course, a professional tutor will be recommended...
...very well, but this system has its drawback as the students do not have the spirit for the corporate body that is shown in the American universities. The lectures do not form as important a part of the program as each man is under the general supervision of a tutor...
There is one further profit to be had from this scheme. The tutor theoretically, is the one agent in the educational outfit who can, through his personal contact encourage interest in the better sort of scholarship and eventually lessen the false emphasis on marks. At present, that power remains mere theory. In our machine, the tutor is simply an accessory; the lecture system, with frequent examinations, is the framework, to which he has to attach himself as best be may. In England, on the contrary, he is one of the drive-wheels, the only person to whom the student...
Arrangements have been made for an exchange of tutors next year between Harvard University and Oxford and Cambridge Universities. The announcement was made last night that President Lowell had completed negotiations for the exchange during his recent trip abroad. Two Harvard tutors will teach in the English universities next year, one in History at Oxford, the other in Economics at Cambridge, an Oxford tutor in History and a Cambridge tutor in Economics coming here at the same time. The system of college tutors at Harvard has been in operation in these subjects for approximately ten years, while...
...arrangements thus made constitutes an important step in the development of the Harvard tutorial system, which is an innovation in American college education. Its most striking characteristic and that which differentiates it from other systems, is that the work of the tutor is independent of courses, not subordinate to them; for tutorial instruction is quite separate from course instruction...