Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...positions. Several thousand concerns that have in the past used men from colleges in the summer, such as hotels and camps, are being approached by the office in connection with the possible employment of students. An announcement of the availability of members of the University for positions as resident tutors, tutor-companions, or yachting assistants is also being made by the Employment Bureau...
...tutorial work absorb a larger portion of the time of students than it does now, because it develops more independence and does not stiltify students' minds by predigesting everything for them. Also it is far more flexible in dealing with individual students' needs than courses. However, trying to tutor an apathetic student is a ghastly job. No one profits by it. So I am in favor of tutoring only those who want. it, as signified by being out for honors or otherwise. The temptation to allow tutoring to develop into cramming for divisionals is all too strong and should...
...peculiar. The only change in the system has come from a demand by the students themselves. There has been no desire on the part of the University to abandon teaching or examination in courses by copying the practice at Oxford and Cambridge of leaving instruction wholly to the tutor, as that would have seemed ill-adapted to the habits of the College...
...opinion about the tutorial system is in print, in the Harvard Graduate Magazine Current History, Harper's and various books. It is an excellent means of instructing superior students if superior tutors are secured for them. Superior students, however, are not so common as undergraduates and CRIMSON editors--tend to believe. They constitute less than ten per cent of the student body. The percentage of superior tutors is about the same. In my experience the good student who has a good tutor is satisfied with the system, and rightly so. The mediocre student no matter who his tutor...
...statement is not meant to suggest that the sole function of the tutor is to prepare people for examinations or that examinations cannot be passed without tutorial aid. It indicates rather that one who avoids effort in his tutorial work is not likely to be sufficiently interested in his subject to work independently (this particular student had already failed once before). I believe that the tutor's first duty is to aid the student to obtain a grasp of his subject as a whole, which, sordidly speaking, means passing his divisionals... There is no reason why a tutor cannot help...