Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a curt nod of "you're welcome," Professor Elliot strode away, across the street to Lowell House, where he is said to be a tutor...
Eighteen years after a storm of controversy was aroused over his championship of the policemen in the Boston police strike of 1920 and the epithet "Bolshevik" was hurled at his head, Harold J. Laski, former lecturer and tutor in the department of History, Government and Economics, urged socialism as a means of preventing "a new and dark age," in a Ford Hall Forum lecture last night...
Among the many problems David M. Little '17 will face next fall when he becomes the new Master of Adams House will be reconciling two members in the Senior Common Room, for it is no deep secret in whispering corners that Robert S. Hillyer '17, associate tutor, has protested Granville Hicks' residence in the House next year...
Since it is the function of the tutorial system not only to bring order out of the chaos of specialized courses but also to provide a link between the student and his distressingly impersonal department, it is obvious that the tutor must come to know his tutee and the problems with which he is faced. In the past, some departments have suffered from an inadequate number of men available for tutorial duty, unless some change in policy is made before the beginning of next year that spectre will again be hunting University Hall...
...situation is particularly alarming in the English department, where a large number of tutors will, at the end of the current year, either receive higher appointments or leave Harvard. As a result, many concentrators will be forced to become acquainted with a new tutor at a time when the benefits of tutorial should be reaching friction. It is expected that the sophomore year will be used breaking the ice; but when, as may be case in the English department, when a considerable number of seniors must become acquainted with three different tutors in as many years, the value...