Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...here we are, Alexander, both in the same position! . . . We are about to enter the preparatory class of that very severe school which is obligatory for all exiles of our calibre, and we are looking for a good experienced tutor. Will you help...
Nothing new can be urged in discussing the function of the tutor, but so long as generally accepted principles are violated there is a reason for reasserting them. The main criticism of tutorial method has been leveled at "coaching". Obviously enough, the syringe-sponge combination is to be avoided above all things. Tutorial conferences should not be private lectures, in which the student plays a wholly passive role. Massage cannot take the place of exercise in developing the mind any more than it can in developing the body...
Careful direction of cramming is clearly not the tutor's business, and it can safely be left to the Widow. Coaching of a certain kind, however, has a legitimate place. It is most needed where it can most easily be abused, in help to undergraduates writing theses. There is a definite educational value in learning how to organize a thesis and in learning what are the paramount issues of the subject under consideration. A first-rate tutor will provide this background without doing the student's thinking...
...High Table Dinner at Lowell House last evening was preceded by a short speech by R. W. Kuhl '32, in taken of the engagement of Mason Hammond '25, head tutor, to Miss Olga Monks of Boston, an event that was announced last week. At the conclusion of Kuhl's remarks, the entire body of residents rose to its foot with applause as W. L. West Jr. '32, presented to the prominent head a small Russian bell for hand use, as a remembrance of his regime as the first head tutor of one of the Charter Houses of the Harvard House...
...students wishing to entertain ladies in their rooms must receive written permission from the Master or the Senior Tutor; but this rule does not apply in the case of mothers and sisters...