Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...today at 7.45 o'clock in the small common room. Professor Schumpeter, the former Austrian minister of Finance, and is now the University's foremost authority on Money, Banking, and the Business Cycle. He is to be the guest of Seymour E. Harris '20, assistant professor of Economics, and tutor in Dunster House...
...members of Leverett House are invited to an informal House meeting in the common room today at 5 o'clock where they will meet the House Master and Senior Tutor...
...degrees and requirements in the new Forum. Finding real education forgotten in an ordered chaos of scholarship he makes a plea for an ideal university which appears to combine the freedom of the Society of Fellows with the organization of a Rollins College. It will undoubtedly remain an idle tutor's dream, but the reforms which might be still injected into the records office and board-rooms of University Hall, can be read between the lines of this sane article. Surely there will come a time when men will leave Harvard knowing more than their grades on 1b miscellaneous examinations...
...Plan. Such activities and groups include formal dances, generally twice annually; tea dances, costume dances, -- shipwreck dances and poverty balls; House dinners on such occasions as Christmas and President Lowell's birthday, with skits following; plays, such as "The Shoemaker's Holiday," produced by the student and tutor members of the Eliot Elizabethan Club; economic societies; "Coffee Pot" discussion groups; musical societies; singing groups; and other discussion groups. For the most part these activities, which have arisen generally from the initiative of students, sometimes from that of tutors, have been very successful. Such activities will take care of themselves. Each...
This does not seem probable. The House dean would have charge of men only as regards their scholastic career: he would deal with credits, promotion, dropping courses, probation, cuts, etc. The infrequent cases of misconduct not taken care of by the senior tutor and master would as always be referred to the Dean. And it does not seem that the possible embarrassment for a student of eating with a dean who an hour before had warned him about probation requirements, or vice versa, would be a sufficient objection against the plan. There is the question whether these men would...