Word: tutored
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Recently a Princeton graduate put toward a new argument, the Robes Thesis: "At the tutorial the student wears the undignified commoner's gown, a jacket of black cloth reaching hardly to the waist. The tutor, however, is dressed in the magnificently flowing black robes of a Master of Arts. This gives a hint of the Oxford notion of the proper relationship between teacher and pupil: the leader is one who knows and the pupil learns from...
...contrasts this situation with Princeton, where preceptorials put students and tutor on a more even footing: neither side wears robes, and "if the preceptor is poor there are bright student" he says "to carry the discussion...
...they are always ready to respond to an undergraduate who seeks than out. College officials have sherry and dinner parties to which undergraduates are invited, and the tutors give extra tutorials to those who ask. Further, the tutor is on the side of his pupils against the Examiners; he doesn't turn in a grade, as at Harvard...
Robert W. Haney, Teaching Fellow in General Education, will assume duties in Adams House beginning next fall. Haney, who is presently an English tutor in the House, is interested in theology and law. He is a Unitarian minister and has written books on civil liberties...
Stanley N. Katz, instructor in History and tutor in Dunster House, has been named the new Senior Tutor of Leverett. Katz, a specialist in American History, will succeed Richard T. Gill '48, who will become Master of Leverett next year...