Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Better to accomplish this end it was recommended in the Student Council report of 1931 that athletic committees be chosen in each House. One tutor and several captains or managers were to be responsible for providing every House member with whatever facilities he desired. Coordination between the seven units was to be supplied by an inter-House athletic committee. The H.A.A. was merely asked, for convenience sake, to provide a secretary for this committee to settle conflicts over the use of buildings, Varsity and House schedules, and other details...
...weather reports over the radio, all waxed up and no place to go. Another season like this, they tell me, and they will cover Mt. Washington with borax and let the sports try the substitute a la Saks-Fifth Avenue. On to lunch at Eliot with G.'s tutor who is in the government department and now looks upon Roosevelt as the very plague. Much talk about the process, minority decision, and writs of certiori until my head did sorely ache. A most sensible and provident plan was suggested by G. who would have the Chief Justice ask Congress...
Freshmen, in particular, need to know what any proposed course holds in store for them, since they have only their tutor's suggestions to go on. Many men have been roped in for a course that was too hard for them, merely on the basis of fly-by-night recommendation or well-meaning suggestions which unfortunately were more harmful than helpful to them...
...quarter century endangered. This means that every student should be given full time tutorial instruction in his sophomore year in order to get him off to a good start in his field of concentration, give him the advantage of thorough tutorial instruction for one year and also provide the tutor and department with complete information on the basis of which the type of instruction which he is to receive during the remaining two years may be determined. After the sophomore year those who have given evidence of being able to profit most fully from regular tutorial instruction should be given...
...that such differentiation in methods of tutorial instruction as are made after the sophomore year should not be based merely on course grades or on the student's technical qualifications for honors, but on the question as to whether the student so far as can be determined by his tutor's opinion, by all the other available evidence, and by his own attitude and interests is able to profit from a type of work which places a large degree of responsibility upon the student himself. This is perhaps the most important and also the most difficult of all the problems...