Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Langer, tutor in Philosophy at Radcliffe, will speak on "The Treadmill of Philosophic Doubt" on Friday at 4 o'clock in Emerson...
Professor J. L. Coolidge '95, professor and tutor in mathematics, leaves today on a trip which will take him as far west as St. Louis, according to an announcement made late yesterday afternoon. His chief object will be to give to Harvard graduates in the west a description uncolored by rumors, of the much discussed House Plan. For this purpose, he will address the Harvard Club of St. Louis on February 20, and on the following night he plans to speak before the Harvard Club of Chicago...
...written examination at the end of Senior year, an oral examination, and a thesis is imperative. A candidate for honors degrees who still wishes to examine a portion of his field more closely will simply devote part of his final year to research under the guidance of his tutor. He needs no pass vised by authority to put him across this line of concentration. His thesis, his oral test prove his worth as a scholar; his general written examination, his knowledge of his field as a whole...
...perhaps even greater significance to Harvard's educational effectiveness are the implications of the conflict between scholarly production and teaching development. The following complaint of a certain tutor will scarcely be dismissed as unique: "With a doctor's degree and an assistant professorship in my possession I have now just reached the point where I can appreciate the teaching possibilities of my position. I should like to settle down for ten years and devote my best energies toward perfecting myself as a teacher. But no, I must speed up research, publish, produce otherwise I'm soon out of the race...
...evidently the mark of academic distinction and the present race between American colleges toward this goal will admit of no laggards. But meanwhile what happens to the training of the student for whom these colleges are ostensibly maintained? The Harvard educational scheme is becoming more and more dependent on tutors and instructors. As the gap widens between lecturer and student the tutor's position becomes increasingly important and increasingly difficult. And at the same time it becomes always more impossible for the tutor to discharge his teaching functions in odd moments stolen from research. Unless the future...