Word: tutored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...study under the Harvard system and have had only two years' experience as a tutor. Furthermore, my academic experience has been where there were so many students one could deal personally with only the brighter ones. I feel also that I am ill prepared in many problems of sociology. I think tutorial work in this field should be combined with some original library research by the competent tutees. I would feel then that when I impressed any student with a principle of sociology, he would accept it from his own experience and not because I said so. I think this...
...review of the inter-House dining situation last October, the CRIMSON proposed that Freshmen be allowed limited privileges in any new system that was to be devised. This matter was apparently shelved by the tutor's committee as irrelevant to the problem at hand, and as needing especial consideration. From various points of view it is pertinent to revive the issue at this time...
...Tutor Must Be Mature...
...will note that I have not said that the tutorial system fails to perform this function in all cases; I have said simply "in many cases." I am sure that the function of correlation and systematization is admirably performed by those tutors (unfortunately a minority) who have been studying in a field long enough, to enable him to perform that function. In other words, the success of the tutorial system in performing the function in question depends on the maturity of the tutor. I do not have to tell you that most of the tutorial work in Harvard College...
...look upon the tutorial system as the student's major opportunity to overcome his deficiencies and develop his capacities. All students should have the advantage of the tutorial system. The best relation between tutor and student is dissatisfied he should have opportunity to transfer to another tutor, precisely as a patient who is dissatisfied may change his physician...