Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defects, already discovered are the operating expenses and the difficulty of finding enough men with the proper qualifications for tutors. The cost, great as it is, will somehow be met, once the system's full desirability is proved. The President's new scheme is an answer to the second problem. The English exchange will bring capable men from Cambridge and Oxford to help train an efficient personnel here; while the possibility of being chosen as one of the exchanges, as well as the increased prestige of the office of tutor, will encourage more good candidates...
...accomplished the desired change, but, grafted to it the tutorial system, still too new to be fairly judged, holds the greatest promise for the future. There will always be the "lame duck" referred to in the Advocate as well as the "high-average" student, and the tutor is the one representative of organized scholarhood who can go among both with any reasonable chance of success...
While the present plan makes no conflict with professional tutoring, it suggests a further development that might come to much good. The Committee states that when a student is found to be in need of detailed assistance in a course, he will be advised to consult some recommended tutor, who is paid for his services and consequently able to devote more time to the student's needs than could be asked of the Phi Beta Kappa volunteer. Such a system should eliminate much waste; at the same time it will serve as a guide for students who honestly need outside...
...clock. Each applicant will be assigned to a member of the society qualified to help him in the particular field of study with which he is having difficulty. Consultations will then he held as often as the advisor thinks desirable. If it is felt that the student needs detailed tutoring in a specific course, a professional tutor will be recommended...
...Fanning '23, and S. L. Tait '23 will compose the University team the last-named as alternate. After a period of intensive training the team left for Pittsburg yesterday afternoon. An effective case has been worked up under the direction of the coach, C. H. Whelden 1G., and tutor in the Division of History, Government, and Economics: The same question constituted the subject of the University debates last year with the University of Syracuse and Ohio Wesleyan...