Word: tutored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to Richard M. Hunt, head tutor, credit was offered this year not because of a heavy work load, but because the additional hour of lecture "enabled us to present necessary background information. Tutorials can now discuss our material much more deeply...
Despite the limitation to four courses including tutorial, there has been no more work required this year than in the last two, according to Donald R. Brown, tutor in Social Studies. He said that incentives for students "are not really needed in a field as selective as ours...
...proposals to grade the sophomore tutorials in History should not be modified, they should be protested. Firstly, and least importantly, the work is already graded by the tutor for the department and by the administration of Part I of the Generals. Secondly, grading the tutorials would ruin the program...
...undermine its purpose as well as the student's enjoyment. The whole structure of the tutorial system is aimed at developing the student's capacity for creative work. Sophomores are acutely conscious of their grades and they are good at figuring out how to get them out of their tutor's weaknesses. Grading the tutorial will just turn it into another exercise in psyching the section man and the experience it gives would be no different from any other course. Because the tutorial meets in a group, there would be less basis for rational grading if any creativity and independence...
Giles Constable, head tutor, indicated yesterday that the total number of credits required for graduation (now 16 1/2) will not be changed for History concentrators, even if sophomore tutorial becomes a credit course. He said that no other definite decisions have yet been made about credit for sophomore tutorial...