Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From an ideal standpoint it is clearly desirable that greater weight be given to tutorial work. The difficulty is the practical one of how to accomplish this. Each tutor, it is argued, is so prejudiced in favor of his own tutees that in many cases his remarks are about as reliable as the eyewash found in the ordinary business letter of recommendation. That this should be true is not surprising in view of the fact that at present all the tutor is asked for is in effect a letter of recommendation. The CRIMSON has suggested before in this and other...
...Benson, Head Tutor of Lowell House, has written a "Survey of the First Two Years of the House Plan" with suggested revisions so as to include the graduate schools in the system. There will be a letter by John Dos Passos '16 telling what he got as well as what he did not get out of Harvard. Two letters on the value of a college education have been written by Newton D. Baker and Clarence Darrow. The former lauds college education whereas the latter deprecates...
Every sizeable U. S. university has a collection of barnacle-like "tutoring schools" which gain fat fees by cramming predigested knowledge into dullards and lazybones. The tutor is usually a shrewd, undersized person who was at one time the "whiz" or "shark" of his college class. There is usually a legend that he has been offered enormous sums to take a college professorship. He works in a grimy, smoke-laden office, his shirt-sleeves rolled up, is busiest when examination time approaches. His stock-in-trade is a file of old examination papers, a collection of mimeographed texts, outlines, shortcuts...
Britons heard that their Edward of Wales, whose Grandfather King Edward VII was an able conjuror, is studying to be a magician, has already learned how to conjure a handkerchief into a union jack. Said his tutor: "He is now trying to master the egg-&-bag trick...
...Dining Room, President Lowell will be seated at a special table with R. M. Ferry '12; Master of John Winthrop House, and Mrs. Ferry and the members of the House Committee. The tables for the other members of the House will be so arranged that there will be one tutor and one associate at each table with the students. President Lowell will make a few informal remarks...