Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...toward which teaching itself should strive, but the Reading Period is in itself such a determined step in that direction that it is questionable whether the student should be completely deprived of tutorial guidance. The possibilities for research and creative work in the time thus made available to the tutor are without doubt great, and honor would be presumed, on the basis of past accomplishment, to be won during them for the University. But if the tutorial system is to continue serving alike the dropped Freshman and the first group Sophomore, it seems clear that it should not abandon...
...Reading Period of May alone will deprive the student of from two to four tutorial conferences. Compression of his work during the half year is forced upon the tutor, and filling of chinks in the field of concentration is thereby hastened. In some cases, as that of the Juniors who will in mid-October take the Bible. Shakespeare and ancient author examinations, the assistance of the tutor at the most critical period of the student's college career is clearly impaired...
...significant that nine of the members of the team prepared at High Schools, one at St. Paul's School, one at Lawrence Academy, and one with a private tutor. Only one of the men is a resident of Massachusetts and the others represent six different states ranging from Pennsylvania to Missouri...
...only disclosing to nervous undergraduates the results of examinations before the sacred date for the publication of marks, but also, on occasion, raising the marks from failure to passing. One Harvard man assures us that Terry saved more students from flunking out than any professor or tutor in the university. The New Yorker...
More freedom in laboratory work will be allowed when the System is applied to Seniors. Each man, in the advanced courses, will have a chance to choose the experiments he will perform, under the guidance of his tutor...