Word: tutored
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...total teaching staff of approximately 1800, there are only 234 tutors. Even omitting the Fall Curator of Coleoptera and the other exotically titled members, this number is still a distinct minority of the Faculty. University propaganda, however, uses the total 1800 for the basis of its boast "one teacher for every two students." Not even all of the 234 are full tutors, however. Every teaching fellow glorified by this additional title does only a part-time job, for he is allowed to spend only three-fifths of his efforts in teaching. Yet most of the 164 lower bracket Faculty...
After receiving a Master's degree in Music here in 1939, French was awarded a John Harvard Traveling Fellowship, but the war prevented him from leaving this country. Instead he became Teaching Fellow and Tutor in Music, and for the last year has been on leave of absence from the Society of Fellows to serve in the Dean's office. He has also been serving as assistant to the Senior Tutor in Lowell House and as Freshman adviser during the present year...
...division plan is well thought of by English concentrators. Opinions on the value of tutorial work vary with the tutor, but the consensus is that it is not only worthwhile but often more valuable than class work...
...courses were lauded by many. In the field of England, the History courses are very comprehensive, and the English courses adequate, if not inspirational. Other fields are more or less on the downgrade, with a tendency for more and more men to enter the larger divisions, but a good tutor can overcome a good many handicaps for a man interested in the less popular special fields...
Professor Cons was born at Lyons, France, in 1879 and graduated from the Sorbonne as Licencie es Letters in 1899. After a period of military service he began his teaching career in France and later in Germany, where he was French tutor at the Royal Court of Prussia. In 1910 he first came to this country...