Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...increasing specialization of the tutorial staffs is due, no doubt, to the fact that unlike the poles of a magnet, like scholars attract like. A Master who is a professor in the sciences will surround himself with young scientists both students and tutors. And once a dominant field is established in a House by the accumulation of several good tutors in that field, applicants for the Houses flock to that House which offers them the best tutorial instruction in their field. As soon as this academic specialization in a House has become a fact it tends to become almost self...
Another disadvantage of an unbalanced tutorial staff is that it requires too many persons to tutor outside their own House. A Student Council report has stated that over forty per cent of the men in Houses have tutors with offices elsewhere. This is the result of one of two things. Either a man's field, if it is a small one, is not represented in any House, or the staff of the House is not well-rounded. Since one of the reasons for the House Plan was closer contact between tutor and tutee, the present situation is very undesirable...
...Union's growing strength is a guarantee that the voice of those most intimately concerned with undergraduate problems--the tutor, the section man, the assistant--will be increasingly heard in the councils of Harvard. That is not to say that henceforth all will work in harmony toward the same educational ends. Inevitably there will be clashes between an ancient and wealthy institution and a group of young teachers pressing for reform. But President Conant has at last opened his eyes to the value of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition...
Government I, French E, and Economics A, all large survey courses, had the next largest survey courses, had the next largest number of enrolled students who tutor, the upperclassman returns revealed. Government I, the second on the tutoring list, however, lags far behind its companion course in the social sciences...
...very short time, and make a selection, based not on a simple criterion such as scholastic standing, which, as the editorial admits, would be unfair, but rather on a large number of factors, such as interest in outside activities, friends in the House, accessibility to a desired tutor, and the number of rooms available in the applicant's price range...