Word: tutored
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Daniel Seltzer, assistant professor of English, will serve as director of the Loeb Drama Center during the academic year 1964-65. He will resign as head tutor of the English department...
...sort of subject, Mr. Gill should have already have decided to make his career in the field of education. His special bent has proved to be the administration of college affairs, a field to which he brought a pronounced feeling for the individual student. In the words of one tutor who has worked with him in Leverett House for the past several years, "Gill has always been unusually willing to go to bat for his boys...
...Gill, now an assistant professor of Economics and the head tutor in Ec 1, got a full-scale dose of the problems of college administration very quickly after graduating from Harvard. In 1950, after studying a year abroad on a Henry fellowship, he began work as assistant dean of the College, under Wilbur J. Bender. Harvard had not yet instituted the Allston Burr Senior Tutorships in the Houses, and so the administrative chores for the entire College were handled in University Hall. The load was not, as it is now, divided between the various House offices; and it naturally presented...
Such a proposal may not seem too absurd if one recalls the experience of the analogous Gill plan to open tutorial to non-Honors concentrators. If the Faculty had passed a Gill plan that required departments to tutor absolutely all non-Honors students, it would undoubtedly have met the fate the Tuesday legislation is likely to meet. It passed because it allowed department discretition in determining who might be excluded from tutorial through failure to satisfy rock-bottom criteria. The method of liberalizing the cum loud degree suggested here would permit like discretion--although in this case the Faculty should...
...least likely to make the choice reasonably, the harshness of the game should remit when circumstances show that a particular thesis will of necessity be very unprofitable indeed. All that should be asked is that a student present good reasons for his desertion; and his thesis advisor and Head Tutor may then turn him out to another, greener, pasture of inquiry. In any case, Faculty policy should aim at relaxing the bonds of the departments through the departments themselves. Yesterday indicated that fortunately or not, they still hold the real authority over an undergraduate's career...