Word: tutored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scrutiny into the philosophy of undergraduate education. For emphasis on formal, blue-book pedagogy, programs such as the Yale plan would substitute the informality of personal contact. Here in the College, an eighth House would make the present tutorial system more efficient. With additional space available, more non-resident tutors could be given offices in the Houses, making them readily accessible for the close tutor-student relationship that is the basis of the tutorial system. Also, more space would give tutors in fields other than the big five a chance to come to the Houses. Although new offices would take...
...familiar with Radcliffe for over a quarter of a century. He came to Harvard in 1923 to get a masters degree after graduating from Oakland City College in Oakland City, Indiana. Picking up a Ph.D. in 1931, he promptly joined the faculty as an instructor in history and a tutor in history, government, and economics. It was in this period that he started teaching at Radcliffe...
...those who drive: Take care. The life you save may be your tutor...
Ayers Brinser, Senior Tutor of the Economics Department, said that the plan is designed to make tutorial count toward a degree. The orals will be administered by the student's tutor and two other tutors from the House. Brinser emphasized that the plan should bring the educational function of the Department more firmly into the House system...
Socially, the mathematicians and humanists mix well. Marston Morse, mathematician and a resident tutor at Eliot House until 1935, compared the collaboration favorably with that at Harvard. "Scientists and classicist mingle more here than we did in Cambridge," he said. "The ideal of the Institute is that scholars meet and teach each other on a plane of equality...