Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the bells do ring. It comes out that every Monday evening at six-thirty Lowell House holds High Table, which is a secret--and we should imagine, sad--sort of dinner, attended only by House members and invited dignitaries. After this function, the High Tablers, led by Head Tutor Mason Hammond, wind in a solemn procession up into the tower to see and hear the bells...
Dunster defeated Kirkland, 3 to 2: P. T. Ellsworth, Tutor (K) defeated Thomas Whiteside '32 (D), 3-2; Warren Dolano '32 (D) defeated A. W. Williams 1G. (K), 3-2; E. A. L. Jantzon '32 (K) defeated Christopher Birckhead '33 (D), 3-1; Richard Borden '33 (D) defeated Clinton Hebberd '3. (K), 3-0; R. H. Bates '33 (D) defeated G. C. Homans...
Perhaps the most significant recent development in American colleges is the widespread attempt to adopt the tutorial system. Pioneering work in various Eastern colleges has stimulated the interest of other schools. Recently, the attempt has been made to introduce the tutor into the fraternity system. Already applied at Minnesota, and Oklahoma, this plan has now been taken up by Lafayette College, with the active support of the faculty...
...extra financial burden which the tutorial system causes has been one of the chief impediments to its spread. Harvard's large-scale revision of its educational system to make way for the tutor could hardly be widely imitated by other colleges. Nor should it be, for in such cases a gradual evolution is better than a forced transition. For many colleges, existent fraternity groups provide a special opportunity for gradual experiment and adaption...
Under such unfavorable circumstances, the prospective tutor might easily degenerate into an assistant in cramming, and usurp the function of the two or three "grinds" which fraternities annually chose for strictly pragmatic purposes. Such an outcome would be a travesty on the genuine tutorial system...