Word: tutored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile two other Masters jumped into the battle to obtain parts of Gore, and in response to a statement made yesterday by Winthrop's Allston Burr Senior Tutor, the Leverett House Civic Improvement Society announced that it was preparing to fight for its demands...
...letter was signed by Daniel S. Cheever '39, Alston Burr Senior Tutor at Winthrop, and James W. Fowle, assistant Senior Tutor...
Brightening the senior's weary scholastic life, a grade in Tutorial 99 is practically an automatic "A". Although the abundance of honor grades pleases in the seniors, the present system deflates the individual mark and creates an unhealthily stilted tutor-tutee relationship...
...would be unusual," remarked a Government tutor, "to give less than an 'A--' to one of my tutees." But as no marks are guaranteed before they reach University Hall, the student tends to regard his tutor as a grader, and acts accordingly. The tutorial program, adapted from British universities, purports to bridge the gap between the pupil and pedagogue; however, when a tutor must evaluate this in terms of a grade, it limits a free exchange of ideas and creates a false atmosphere. As a history tutor explained, "Some students invent problems just so they can come to my office...
...these senior tutees, the value of tutorial is largely as an aid in writing a thesis and preparing for General Examinations. If tutorial grades were assigned on the basis of the student's thesis and Generals, the mark would no longer burden the tutor, and would also have more significance...