Word: tutored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...until now; from now on, all Freshmen will be Honors candidates until they fail one of the three hurdles). The Honors student must take more courses than his non-Honors colleague, and is given, in many departments, individual tutorial. This consists of a weekly or fortnightly meeting with his tutor, when the two discuss the reading assigned by the tutor, or perhaps discuss a paper the student has written. Obviously informal, these meetings often develop into friendships between student and tutor (who may be a distinguished professor) which far outlast one's undergraduate career...
...Harvard, students have for years been mumbling about "independent study." Two years ago, a short-lived magazine called i.e., the Cambridge Review published a provocative issue on "Harvard 1956" which strongly advocates increased independent reading and small individual conferences between student and tutor (Harvard's name for an instructor who works with an individual or small groups outside the regular course plan). i.e. went so far as to demand an end to the lecture system, a suggestion at which most undergraduates balked, but generally the cry of i.e. was accepted as one bearing a good deal of merit. The CRIMSON...
...obvious, then, that while still admitting the importance of the lecture system, the committee also acknowledged the wisdom of the desire for greater independent study with a tutor. This had always been a fundamental principle of the Honors program at Harvard, but had not always been practiced as such. The program for non-Honors students--those who fail the Sophomore and/or Junior test--was not quite so laudable: the Committee at first recommended special courses for non-Honors students, apparently somewhat pragmatically oriented. This feature was excised after a full Faculty discussion, and the non-Honors program remained...
...these sessions, a student is forced to think quickly and clearly; he may not just sit back and take notes. At the end of the term the tutor writes a report on his tutee, which from now on will be fairly strongly weighted in a deciding his Honors candidacy. This sort of relationship continues in Sophomore tutorial and Junior tutorial, although some departments will continue to have students tutored in groups; in Senior year, every Honors candidate meets individually with a tutor, under whose guidance he writes a thesis...
...Morris had to do was convince his tutor...