Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berridge 3G., instructor and tutor in the Department of History, Government, and Economics, has been awarded the 1921 Pollak prize of $1000 for his essay on "Unemployment and the Business Cycle...
...principle which justifies such changes, is that there is now spread, at Harvard a table of intellectual food of which all may partake. But this is not enough; the student must be shown the value of the subjects, and their interest. The tutor's work is here. And the success with which a subject is absorbed should certainly be the measure of an undergraduate's achievement, on the degree of his intelligent command of his field should honors or distinction be awarded or withheld...
...extended as soon as possible to new fields, other than the Division of History, Government, and Economics. There are many obstacles in the path of such an advance. The two greatest are that the tutorial method is very expensive, and that the attitude, on the part of the tutors and students alike, is not conducive to great success. The financial problem is difficult, but it is conceivable that funds may be found, and also that many professors now tied up with several courses may be relieved of some of them where these courses could be adequately covered by reading...
Positions as monitor and proctor for the University also were popular, 158 men serving as monitors and 85 as proctors. The Employment Office placed 74 students as tutors or tutor-companions, 64 as clerks, and 36 as chore men, while 34 secured typewriting work through the efforts of the office. There were also 22 student guides, 21 ushers, 17 chauffeurs, 15 musicians, and 13 waiters. Other students were employed as camp counselors during the summer, as salesmen and boys' club leaders, as stenographers and farmers, as coaches and translators, as janitors and librarians, and in a large variety of other...
...year from September 1, 1921.--Mr. Floyd Elmer Armstrong, Tutor in the Division of History, Government, and Economics; Mr. Marcus Lee Hansen, Tutor in the Division of History, Government, and Economics...