Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they have had to write a thesis and study a great deal in a special field to cover all the work of their own department not to mention the "related" ones. Review can at best be of a cursory nature; tutorial work can be of little help where the tutor is a specialist in another department and feels that most of the time must be spent in the particular subject of concentration. The result as shown by the examination papers is that the broad knowledge aimed for is spread out so much that it becomes extremely thin...
...Houses are to be residential units. The courses of instruction, the requirements for a degree, the examinations, the college discipline outside of good order in the House, will be as before, under the Faculty. So will the work of the tutors, for although this will be done so far as possible in the Houses, its nature and quality will remain under the supervision of the body of tutors for the department or division concerned. Nevertheless, the relation of the tutor to his pupil will be closer than ever, because, if unmarried, he will live and commonly take his meals...
...Mather, professor of Geology, and tutor in the department of Geology, when queried about the quake last night, stated that he believed its point of origin to have been the Fundian Fault Zone, in the Gulf of Maine. At this point there is a very ancient fracture in the earth's crust, extending from the Bay of Fundy, Southwest, to the region of Cape Ann. That zone has caused so many earthquakes in the last three centuries that whenever one is felt near Boston, it is suspected as being the cause. The last tremor was felt about Boston on January...
Flayed. Silent and alone in his rear-row seat last week sat Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut while Democrats on the Senate floor excoriated his employment of Charles L. Eyanson, agent of the Connecticut Manufacturers' Association, as his tariff tutor (TIME, Oct. 7). The lobby-hunting committee brought in a statement of fact, in the Bingham-Eyanson case, without major recommendations. Declared Chairman Caraway of the Lobby Committee: "This transaction was beneath the dignity of the Senate and would tend to shake the confidence of the American people in the integrity of legislation." Democratic Senator Dill of Washington suggested...
...This improvement can be attributed in great part, if not entirely, to the introduction of the tutorial system. I was a tutor in the year 1913-1914, and I know that this system has had much to do with the breaking down of the old attitude of enmity between student and instructor. It has enriched the contacts made, and induced students to show much more interest in their studies, especially in outside reading, which may or may not be suggested by the tutor...