Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Since tutors in History and Literature have duties also to their respective divisions of History or of Modern Languages, it is especially advisable that the number of students per tutor be kept small. This is doubly necessary in view of the fact that in History and Literature tutorial work has a larger task of correlation than in other fields. Because candidates for honors have their last written divisional in the junior year and because the department encourages course-reduction, the value of the last year for these men depends mainly on tutorial work. Men in the field must be willing...
...whole it has become useless and even harmful. At present distinction in general subjects represents only a part of the student's work. It takes no consideration of that done for his tutor or for his divisional examinations. And when the general course reduction goes into effect next year, it will be even less representative. Requiring no thesis, it does not show sufficient extra work over that of the pass man to justify honors. Further it gives too easy an opportunity for the brilliant man to become lazy and avoid the labor an honors thesis requires. Perhaps the strongest argument...
...Herring, instructor and tutor in Government is in charge of the political section of the committee's research...
...meeting to be held this Thursday morning at 9 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall, the various fields of concentration will be outlined to the entire Freshman Class. The speakers at the meeting will be President Lowell, Professor E. A. Whitney '17, Assistant Professor and Tutor in History and Literature, and Dr. A. E. Hindmarsh, Assistant Dean of Harvard College...
...David A. Wells Prize in Economics, consisting of $500, for the best thesis embodying the results of original investigation, has been awarded to H. D. White, instructor and tutor in economics. The subject of his thesis was "French International Accounts: 1880-1913". Dr. C. W. Heath '22, of Boston, was the recipient of the William O. Moseley Travelling Fellowship for the study of medicine abroad during the academic year...