Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...test of the student's fitness to remain in the institution the Technology authorities appear to have decided wisely. The advantages which the graduates of the best preparatory schools have in their preparation and the amount of transient knowledge which can be absorbed with the help of a hired tutor greatly limit entrance grades as a true gauge of ability. On the other hand, in spite of the prevalence of tutorial schools accessible to college students, college grades are largely the result of industry and aptitude for the subject...
...solution of the problem; dropped Freshmen will remain as in the past. In the segregation of these men because of the tutorial system, the CRIMSON feels that there should be some consistency on this point. This year there are several examples of men living in Dunster whose tutors are in Lowell, or vice versa. While this may be explained on the grounds that the mechanism of the House Plan cannot be geared perfectly in one year, it is more difficult to understand the case, in the draw of the upperclassmen last month, of many men who applied and were refused...
Mason Hammond, head tutor of Lowell, who formerly played on the Baliol team, opened the meeting by commending rugby as a game for inter-house competition. T. P. Fry grL. followed with a talk on the intra-mural and college games planned, as well as an explanation of the fundamental rules of rugby...
...attempt to realize this difficult ideal. This attempt at universality, although noble in aim, is open to all the dangers of superficiality. Trying to solve the "eternal problems which confront us all" class and administrative restrictions have been broken down and the emphasis placed on the close relations of tutor and tutee...
Another comparison which he drew was in the tutorial systems which both institutions possess. While externally the same, the system used in the college in the freshman and sophomore years permits an even greater intimacy of the tutor with the student than is possible at Harvard. The tutor works with the student, and the two, to some extent, learn together. This is the plan originated by the president of the college, Alexander Micklejohn, former president of Amherst...