Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following review of the current issue of the Lampoon was written for the Crimson by Huntington Brown '22, instructor and tutor in the Division of Modern Languages...
...becomes gradually clearer that the fact that her attentions are unwelcome will not check the course of social proselytizing upon which Russia has embarked. There is rather every indication that her propaganda plans are expanding. She has learned, without needing Chicago in the office of tutor, that the pen is still the mightier. And her executives have determined that when better propaganda is made, Russia will make...
...Arnold Horween for another season as chief moulder of Harvard football destiny. Whatever has been the result of his first two years' efforts, indifferent success or a gradual building up process, there has never arisen a question as to his pre-eminent qualities as a gentleman and a worthy tutor of young men in the important field of sportsmanship...
...Harvard student knows roughly what he is going to do with the rest of his college course. He does not stumble aimlessly about changing his plans--if he has any--from year to year and harried continually by the necessity of meeting the "requirements". He is also assigned a tutor who performs for him the invaluable service of correlating his courses, that is of making his program a whole that hangs logically together and has some meaning rather than an assemblage of miscellaneous courses. It is evident, then, that the Harvard student has two inestimable advantages over the Yale...
There are certain things which it is necessary to possess in order to gain culture, which is the end of education, and these are a foundation of facts. It is these which the lectures are designed primarily to supply. All the personal contacts with one's tutor, the polishing off of the little niceties of knowledge are the whipped cream, the icing of the cake. The nourishment must come elsewhere, and that the tutorial system can supply it as well as the lectures seems to the Vagabond very doubtful. When a balance between the two is reached--sometime--when...