Word: tutored
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Although completely reworded by the Committee on Educational Policy during the last month, the motion adopted remains essentially the same as that presented to the Faculty in January and originally proposed by Richard T. Gill '48, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Leverett House. The alterations made tended to enlarge departmental freedom in interpreting and implementing the program...
...order to cross-register, for which there is no charge, a Harvard student must: (1) ask his tutor for a statement that this College has no comparable course and that the M.I.T. course will be useful for his program; (2) ask Bloomfield for a statement of admission at the first meeting; and (3) turn in these papers to Dean Andrews in University Hall...
Since 1958, the Committee on Educational Policy has favored weekly face-to-face confrontation of student and faculty as the best method of learning. Before any changes are effected, however, a study should be made of the relative merits of small group tutorial, occasional meetings with a tutor other than a student's own, tutorial with a fixed program (Economics 98), and tutorial specifically designed to fill gaps in a student's education (English 99). Many alternatives to individual tutorial exist, all of which deserve more detailed attention...
Bernard Ballyn, associate professor of History and Head Tutor, said yesterday that he presented at the meeting "a guess" that there would be neither a great" that there would be neither a great increase nor decrease in the number of students taking History tutorial under the new plan. Dean Monro, instrumental in the new legislation, has said that the number of students changing into tutorial would probably cancel out the number of those who would prefer to avoid tutorial and thesis work to seek the Honors degree in General Studies...
Additional discussion at the Departmental meeting reportedly centered on the possibility that a student who, in the opinion of his tutor, was not qualified to take tutorial and write a thesis could not be prohibited from doing...