Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor K. F. Mather, professor of Geology and tutor in the Division of Geology, predicted in his talk that all high schools will be equipped for the projection of sound pictures within a decade. He spoke of the possibilities of sound films and told of the use of motion pictures in scenic teaching. He felt that improvements in films and radio for educational use depend on the cooperation of educators, who must meet these agencies half...
...increased emphasis being placed on the function of the tutorial system, it is reasonable to expect that some steps will be taken to maintain a high standard of personnel which will be equal to the increased demands exacted from it. The weak link in the chain is the individual tutor...
...order to do his best work a tutor needs an opportunity for an adequate amount of research. On a maximum salary of $3,000, however, the average full-time instructor-tutor can not carry on his own study without some outside means of support. Despite the recent raise in faculty salaries this situation continues, because the tutor is paid according to the number of his tutees. A reduction in his schedule, therefore, from 25 to perhaps 15 or 20 men, means a corresponding decrease in salary, leaving him with an income barely sufficient to meet the demands essential to living...
...graded salary has two outstanding results both of which are injurious to the tutorial system. In the first place, the full-time tutor loses efficiency because he is unable sufficiently to replenish himself through outside study. Then, too, as long as the University virtually demands a doctorate for promotion, the ambitious, and consequently the best, teachers are forced to slight their tutorial work in order to prepare for their doctor's examinations. This is particularly true in cases of the tutor who has junior and senior honor candidates among his tutees...
Over 30 men were present at a meeting to create interest in inter-House rowing in the Lowell House students' common room yesterday afternoon, when Mason Hammond '25, head tutor of Lowell House, and former member of a Harvard and a Balliol College, Oxford, eights, outlined proposals to put a Lowell House boat on the river and race with Dunster House before the spring vacation, provided Dunster House has a crew...