Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Term goes on for roughly six weeks. But one may stay for two, three or four as one likes, and it is common to hear an undergraduate say: "I'm fed up with this place. Tomorrow I'm off to Salzburg." Off he goes, with the blessings of his tutor and supervisor...
Third, the inefficiency which is undermining the whole structure of President Lowell's worthy innovation, the tutorial system. Roughly the same difficulties are apparent among the tutors as among the advisers, but here they have a far more pernicious and injurious effect. A man can after all reserve the right to his own judgment in accepting or rejecting the counsel of the Freshman adviser, but if he is cursed with an indifferent or incompetent tutor, he misses a serious proportion of the good which the College has to offer him. Limitation not amplification of the number of tutees...
Retiring officers of the Classical Club announced selection of their successors yesterday. Alan McNaughton Gordon Little, tutor in the division of Ancient Languages succeeds Reginald I. W. Westgate, tutor in the same field, as President...
Aptly illustrating this depraved attitude is the inability of the tutorial staff to synthesize the course-work to the undergraduates in the field of the sciences. Many of the tutors are brilliant men; some are far advanced in their chosen rut; but when the tutor can escape to tutoring from beneath the Danioclean threat of research and then more research, he does not appear to be required or to even feel the need of establishing in his tutee's mind some coordination among the roiling details of the student's incipient techniques...
Arthur Eli Monroe '08, lecturer in Economics, will continue under the new regime to hold his present post of Senior Tutor, and Professor Whitney will continue his association with Kirkland House as a member of the tutorial staff...