Word: tutored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tutorial. Reading is organised around weekly essay topics suggested by the student's tutor; there is no course system as we know it. Tutorial, Oxford-style, might be called 'education by duel,' an exercise in debate as well as a test of ideas...
Student/Faculty Contact. In the New College dining hall, tutors not only get special food and wine but they also sit at a 'high table,' segregated from the undergraduate mob. Most of the students whom I interviewed only knew one faculty member personally: their tutor...
...this problem can never be completely solved. Their provisional answer has been to judge each application separately, on the basis of the student's record and supposed "character," and the merit of the proposed study program he submits--a procedure which could lead to unduly arbitrary decisions. The head tutor in each department and the Administrative Board conduct these evaluations; both must approve each application. During the first few months of the program, the Committee on Advanced Standing carefully scrutinized all requests. But they lacked the knowledge to evaluate the merits of each applicant and his program and, in effect...
Whether your head tutor autographs your form depends on his particular department's attitude toward the program. While most approve in principle of top students working on their own, their ideas of how this should be accomplished vary. The History Department, for example, feels that most students require fairly close contact with a faculty member, and attempts to give them special second tutorials, while students of English are not required to have a faculty advisor at all. The Faculty legislation establishing the program limit it to Juniors and Seniors who are Honors candidates, but Group III students have a hard...
...note accompanying the motion, Gill stated, "the Department would have every right to use the student's course record, the tutor's recommendation, or other such criteria, in addition to a satisfactory performance (C- or higher)" as a condition of admission to Junior and Senior tutorial. "It is understood, however, that the condition that a student be doing work of honors quality either within or outside his department would not be used as a criterion for admission..." he stated...