Word: tutored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...travelling scholarships for undergraduate. It is an outworn doctrine that the American undergraduate is a schoolboy needing constant discipline lest the desire for learning die entirely within his breast. He is being now, rather, subjected to contacts that are in themselves educational. Such is discussion with a competent tutor. Such, also, might well be study, for one year out of the four, at a foreign university...
Instructed by lecture or recitation, the student is apt to feel that he has been told all that he needs to believe, or worse yet, to know, and to feel that he need know nothing else . . . The close relation with the tutor, and the operation side by side of the two sets of teachers, promote independence and a spirit of inquiry. If the tutor is the right kind of man, he also occupies somewhat the role of an older brother, when such a role is in place, helps the student solve the problems of college life and even, sometimes...
...attempt to establish a human relation has succeeded so well that some directors or tutors even think the men spend more time with their students than they need to spend. The tutor who enjoys taking his ease in his inn naturally finds the students ready to spend much time in general chat. It is not so easy, when trying to cultivate a close relation, to cut interviews short. For instruction, the students are met singly or in small groups of those whose reading is much the same. The consultation is kept small enough to be of the nature...
...system has been richly justified by its fruits. The profit, and even satisfaction, derived by the students from it is one of the most invigorating things which one sees on returning to Harvard after an absence of 22 years. They value the assistance of the tutors more and more as they advance from the Sophomore to the Senior year. This is partly, of course, as a source of counsel and ghostly strength as the general examinations approach. To the Sophomore, these examinations seem merely one far-off, diabolical event; to the Senior, they seem imminent and awful. All students take...
...rouses students, if they are rousable, to a very large amount of purely disinterested reading. In the Junior year for example, an English tutor will put men through a course in nineteenth century prose with no special bearing on the examinations. One energetic tutor last year reported that in the first two months and a half of the year a Sophomore read, outside his regular class work, and discussed with his tutor, 13 plays, two long poems, and one long novel, most of these being comparatively recent (not ephemeral) and not bearing particularly on the general examinations, work which must...