Word: tutored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only problem yet remaining is that of manpower; whether the University can persuade qualified men to accept positions as Senior Tutor. Although no University duty is particularly easy, the Senior Tutor's job will be particularly difficult for several years at least. Why? Because the position is new, and whatever importance it achieves--or fails to achieve--will depend on how well those who undertake its obligations fulfill them...
...statement, issued by head tutor Joseph A. Kahl, said that "the principal purpose of the honors thesis is not to provide a concrete description or journalistic account of particular events, persons, or places, but rather to analyze social phenomena in such a way as to yield statements about general regularities in human behavior...
Destined to become effective next Fall, the Bender program sets up the office of Senior Tutor in each House, and assigns it the disciplinary duties now performed by the Dean's Office and a share of the responsibilities now exclusively delegated to the various departments. Within this organizational framework, the program enlarges tutorial, extending it to all sophomores, juniors, and honors Seniors, members of the five large departments, thereby restoring advising to its former place in the Harvard education...
...more controverted issue was the question of administration: the departments wished to keep full control over all tutorials, leaving the Senior Tutors with little but decanal duties to perform. Worse, it seemed that no one above an assistant professor was willing to fill the new positions. Both problems threatened to kill the program, but the Faculty sidestepped them. Its resolution requires that "Senior Tutors . . . shall be considered to have special responsibilities for working out with the departments the organization of tutorial groups for Sophomores on a residential basis." In an explanatory note, the Faculty affirmed continued centralization of junior...
Under the Gilmore plan, tutorial groups will be organized by the Senior Tutors under the direction of the Dean of Students who will be Dean Leighton. The Senior Tutor will advise students living in the Houses...