Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most other methods adopted so far have been more or less disappointing. It is becoming increasingly clear how difficult it is to find a field of common action upon which tutor and student can meet and develop that atmosphere of sociability so admittedly desirable in the House Plan. Teas given by the various Masters in their Lodgings have been of advantage only to that regrettably small number of students attending them. Informal buffet suppers for seniors during their examinations, as tried by one Master, come too late in the college career to furnish the missing link...
Although House teams are open to the tutors, the number of men able to take advantage of them is definitely limited, both by time and by natural abilities. Admittedly the best arena for the desired meeting of tutor and student is the House dining-room, but the stubborn persistence of the tutors' table in most of the Houses prevents success here to a great degree...
...Crane Brinton '19, elected associate professor of History and tutor in the Division of History, Government, and Economics. From 1924 to 1928 he was instructor in History and has since then held the capacity of assistant professor...
...Lamson, Jr., 6G., of Cambridge, Mass.--appointed instructor in English and Tutor in the Division of Modern Languages for one year from Sept...
...dining students of Harvard's Lowell House stare portraits of poet James Russell Lowell, President emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Astronomer Percival Lowell. The dining students of Lowell House stare down upon their plates and grumble that the Lowells would never stand for such food. Last week Head Tutor Elliott Perkins of Lowell House received from the student House Committee a formal, itemized account of the evils of House food. The cream: sour. The butter: rancid. The haddock: wormy. The milk: warm. The eggs: bad. The toast: cold. The vegetables: wet. The stew meat: gristly. The chicken: hacked instead...