Word: tutored
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...After offering support for putting Freshmen in Houses ("If we had Freshmen in the Houses, we wouldn't dream of taking them out") but showing a proper uncertainty ("It's a question of whether the changes are worth the cost"), he brought to light a proposal Benjamin Labaree, Senior Tutor of Winthrop House, made in Fall...
Labaree proposed that the Freshman dorms be divided into administrative groups of about 250 students, with a 'senior tutor' in charge of each. He hoped to replace the law students now dominating the proctoring system with GSAS types--a suggestion that Dean Von Stade regards as impractical. The proposal would almost certainly improve Freshman advising; it would also be relatively cheap...
Labaree has suggested, and Monro mildly approves, that a pilot program next year might encompass the Greenough-Pennypacker-Hurlbut group and make use of the married tutor already resident there. Such an experiment would not tell anybody very much, but since, as Monro points out, decisions like these are usually just the result of allowing a concept to percolate, the pilot project might step up the heat...
...major change in freshmen residential or advising arrangements is likely next year, Dean Monro has indicated. Although he expressed interest in the pilot project proposed by Benjamin W. Labaree. Senior Tutor of Winthrop House, Monro expressed doubt that action would be taken next Fall...
Reorganizing the advisor system into five dorm groups with a senior tutor in charge of each will not radically alter the freshman year. It is hard to understand what virtues are to be found in delay, not only because procrastination saps the enthusiasm that an idea can inspire, but because there really doesn't seem to be much to learn...