Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe that the tutorial work should be put on the same footing as course work. The tutee and the tutor should select the field they want to cover. There should be a reading list, quizzes and examinations, and a grade should be turned in. Then both tutors and tutees would take the work more seriously. It should be more valuable to the student than a class, as the instruction can be adjusted to the progress the student makes and individual difficulties can be dealt with as they arise...
Some of your questions are misleading. I heartily endorse the suggestion of establishing two degrees. I doubt whether we should follow Oxford and Cambridge in placing virtually the whole responsibility for a student's instruction upon his tutor, but I think we might well place at least a third to a half of the responsibility there, in the case of honors men, and not much less than a third in the case of any student who, for any reason, is thought worthy of tutorial instruction. Instruction which involves drill, as in elementary work generally, can be done best in courses...
...reason for the romantic theory governing tutorial discipline at present, according to which no measures can be taken against a student for slackness, except in extreme cases. The tutor should report periodically satisfactory or unsatisfactory the work of each student, with comments, and his report should be given the same consideration by the dean as course grades. Tutors at present have too many students, and students have not time to do sufficiently through work to benefit to any extent by tutorial instruction...
...they ought to be, and can be, a fair test of a man's mastery of his subject. In my department they are improving from year to year, and I look for continued improvement in the future. It is nonsense to ask a student to read for a tutor only with the indeterminate end in view of gaining a liberal education--nonsense to ask a student to read for a tutor only with the indeterminate end in view of gaining a liberal education--nonsense to warn his tutor against cramming. Nobody can cram for an intelligent examination--such...
...musical end of the program is equally well planned. J. R. Walsh, tutor, will sing several selections for the House, and a violin, cello, and piano trio consisting of Robert North, Jr. '33, F. H. Tunnell, Jr. '35, and J. P. Squire '33 respectively, will also play. Conducted by C. M. S. Niver '22, they will render the Deuxieme Concert Royal by Cuoperin, and the trio in G-major by Mozart...