Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tutorial system, differing from the existing plan in other branches of the College, in that every member of the department will serve as tutor in addition to his duties of instruction, will be adopted by the Division of Mathematics, it was announced yesterday by the University Office. The new system specifically includes general examinations as in other departments now using the tutorial system. It will go into effect next fall for all members of the class of 1929 concentrating in mathematics, and also for upperclassmen who so desire...
...Vogt, tutor in the Department of Modern Languages, will speak on "How to Make a Graduate School" at the next Modern Language Conference to be held in Conart Common Room on Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock...
...will be immediate and real, more real perhaps than those of any other recent innovation in University policy. The announcement declares that a considerable part of it will go toward the maintenance of better assistance and equipments in the various departments, and above all, to provide "more and better tutors." Ever since the inauguration of the tutorial system the first cry has been, "more and better tutors." The point is fundamental. Under a poor tutor the system is little more than worthless; a good tutor is often practically all that is needed to make a student's college experience...
...tutorial meeting has certain unique qualities. It can accomplish what is impossible either to lectures on to ordinary conferences. The necessity of "speaking down" from the platform limits the possibilities of the lecturer, the tutor cannot go beyond what little he himself within a short space of time can tell each single man who comes to him. In a tutorial meeting there can be the informality, the spontaneity, the free discussion which a classroom lacks without the hampering, mechanical restrictions of an ordinary conference. the speaker who directs the meeting,--perhaps he is a different individual each time, the present...
...following review of the current issue of the Advocate, which appears on the stands today, was written especially for the Crimson by Edward Hungerford, Tutor in the Division of Modern Languages...