Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...common knowledge that men on probation, and many men off probation who show little interest in their tutorial work, are allowed to go their own way, with the blessing of the tutor thus released from some of his overwork. The committee's suggestion is therefore already, though somewhat tacitly, in effect. But the students in question are not thus given very much stimulus to education. They merely pass their courses, slither past the minimum requirements, and get a degree signifying little more than four years' watching innumerable and golden opportunities...
Payson S. Wild, Jr., Instructor in Government and Tutor at Harvard, has been promoted to Assistant Professor of Government, for three years, from next September...
Garrett Birkhoff, of Cambridge, Mass., A.B. Harvard '32, at present a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard, has been appointed Instructor in Mathematics and Tutor in the Division, for two years, from next September...
...lecturer in the course deserves the greatest credit for this achievement; our compliments go to Raphal Demos, assistant professor of Philosophy and tutor in the Division of Philosophy and Psychology...
Finally, such a scheme would fuse the tutorial and course methods of instruction into a well integrated system. The function of the tutor would be to guide and stimulate the student in his work. Course lectures would provide the student with information and some contact with great teachers. The capstone of the system, the general examination, would be the sanction inducing the student to take the true University attitude both in regard to his courses and his study under his tutor...