Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Mr. Conrad Aiken titles the present tutorial system at Harvard a "fifth wheel" he is not entirely condemning it. He is commenting on the difficulty in cataloguing the value of the system, not emphasizing its demerits. No one realizes better than the tutor, unless it be his tutee, how delicate is the machine of operation, and how extremely intangible are the aims of the tutorial system, especially in its bloom of youth. One vaguely refers to it as a helping hand, a coordinating influence, a personal guide; and it is all of these things, but it is also...
...desired "checking up" mentioned by Mr. Aiken is to be discovered at the end of the student's final year; there it lies in wait for him in the shape of examinations calculated to test the worth of the theory itself, the tutee and the capability of his tutor...
...tutorial system in Harvard College is curiously unsystematized," was the charge made by Conrad Aiken '11, poet and novelist. Mr. Aiken, whose latest novel, "Blue Voyage", has just been published, is acting as a tutor-in the English department this year...
...Thus far," he continued, "I find that the tutorial system does not relate closely to the rest of the curriculum. It is rather a fifth wheel. The chief disadvantage is that it lacks checking up. I feel, however, that my short experience as tutor does not wholly entitle me to such a dogmatic opinion. The ideal system would be to leave all responsibility to the tutor. There would be no examinations, and lectures would be optional. The tutor would have the final decision as to whether the student has passed...
...hours which pass while waiting in line are among the bitterest in the human rosary. At Harvard it means little more than a walk to one of various halls and ten minutes spent there while registering. To be sure there are appended duties such as journies to one's tutor and to the Bank, but the main agony is passed when the card is returned and permanently filed...