Word: tutored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the House seminars were first discussed in 1958, Richard T. Gill '48, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Leverett House claimed that the seminars, if organized as substitute non-Honors tutorials, would be as unsuccessful as the regular non-Honors tutorial programs which several Departments have offered in the past. But Gill's response to the problem of the non-Honors concentrator was to suggest changing the Honors program to its present, open form, rather than to alter the seminars...
Andrew G. Jameson, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Adams House, claimed that House seminars "should be completely dissociated from tutorial as we conceive it departmentally." Instead, he maintained, they should be considered a part of the House activities...
Commenting on this statement, Lloyd I. Rudolph '48, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Dunster House, maintained that "House seminars serve a legitimate educational function beyond tutorial." He contended that seminars can provide a worth while broadening of the standard curriculum...
Richard H. Ullman '55, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Lowell House, stated that he favored seminars that "aimed at active participation by the undergraduates." He advocated the seminar in which there are reading assignments and in which the student does more than sit and "soak...
What spurs Cantabs on is the weekly tutorial session: "Two men, two chairs, two pipes and a fire." This mainspring of Cambridge education (as at Oxford) consists of reading aloud and defending an original essay-an experience as unpredictable as the tutor can make...