Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best honor men have not found the subject until the Sophomore year and have not awakened to recognition of their own power till their Junior year. Dare we risk losing such men even though to find them, we must drag along the intellectually uncurious? I should prefer to tutor every man as intensively as he desires, and then have no regrets over those who fail the divisional examinations. (But of course if the tutoring system is merely a substitute for the widow, I have the wrong slant on everything...
...tutor who formerly studied under the tutorial system, I feel that this system is decidedly beneficial to one who intends to continue with graduate work, and that its benefits are in direct proportion to the time and effort which a student devotes to it. It appears to me that the only ones who do not benefit from tutorial instruction are those who do either no work, or an irreducible minimum. I do not believe that the sanctions on tutorial work, such as the general examinations, should be increased. Rather should the student be lead to enjoy this work...
...intended largely, I think, to get away from general requirements and average work to individual work that will meet individual needs. With certain qualifications, I would have little sympathy or enthusiasm for tutorial work if it were not possessed of great flexibility that made it possible for a tutor to guide the individual student in the work he (the student) needed most, from which he could most profit, and to which he could bring real curiosity, and, further, to guide only those students who do need and want such guidance. A stereotyped and formal conference week after week is deadly...
...present time, some Tutors complain that they haven't enough time to spend on the good men, the ideal of some appearing to be full time with the Honors Senior working on a thesis subject. It seems to me the ideal distribution of time would give the eager and able Sophomore or Junior time enough to bring him to the point where he could work more by himself than ever before in his Senior year and enough time on the unregenerate Sophomore or Junior to be sure that there was no hope of awakening latent powers befor he was consigned...
...some extent there is an incompatibility between conspicuous attainment in the field of research and conspicuous attainment in the field of teaching and tutoring. A good tutor should have read widely, not only in the special field in which he is doing research, but in other fields of his Department and in still other fields covered by related Departments. Occasionally his research interests may lead him to do this, but for the most part his research work imposes intensive reading in a relatively narrow field. How can we expect a group of specialized research workers to perform for others...