Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brinton's article brings out defects in the Oxford system which have carefully been avoided here. The English university student comes in contact with only one trained mind in the course of his term, that of his tutor. Under the present system here the student may still come in contact, if only through well prepared lectures, with the most distinguished members of the Faculty. When the tutorial system is extended further at Harvard, as seems highly probable, some provision should certainly be made to perpetuate this contact. To allow the lecture system to drift into the state in which...
...following special article was written for the Crimson by Clarence Crane Brinton, Ph.D. Dr. Brinton graduated from Harvard in 1919 and later pursued his education at Oxford University. He is now an instructor and Tutor in the department of History at the University...
...university not only examines and grants degrees: it also provides lecturers. These are given either by professors, who are university officers and do no tutoring or by fellows of colleges who also act as tutors in their own colleges. Most of these lectures are on special subjects not to be got out of text-books, such as "The Law of Nature in the Scholastic Philosophy". But there are many lectures that make such subjects as English constitutional law or the French Revolution appear easier than they are, and these are well and faithfully followed. Attendance is not usually required, although...
...life than the middle Westerner has of Harvard social life. The teaching of the college is in the hands of its fellows, the "dons", and is now done wholly by the tutorial method. The student of history has in any one term of eight weeks one, or perhaps two, tutors, with whom he studies a particular part of his field. He sees his tutor once a week for one hour. At the beginning of the term the tutor decides what his pupil is going to read--though the order of subjects is more or less set by custom. He then...
Another resignation announced yesterday was that of Assistant-Professor R. S. Meriam who will leave the Economics department at the end of the year to accept a position at Amherst in the fall of 1925. Professor Meriam graduated from the University in 1914, serving as a tutor in the Division of History, Government, and Economics, and coming to the University in 1919 to teach...