Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Concentrators' comments on the faculty in the Department: Hill--amusing but choppy lecturer, good for elementary courses, authority on orchestration. Leichtentritt--lectures well, overemphasizes detail, an authority on opera. Davison--grand lecturer, expert in church music. Ballantine-- although weak as lecturer and tutor, authority on appreciation and form. Piston--his field composition, excellent lecturer and tutor for advanced men. Merritt--completely enthralled by music and thus inspiring and a good tutor, especially for more advanced men. Woodworth--excellent as glee club leader, not as strong as tutor. Ramseyer--excellent job as assistant in Music 4, best piano player in Department...
...teachers seems to me to lose much of its value when the students who are called upon to give their opinion are chosen by the department itself, and when some of the men who are thus selected to represent undergraduate, opinion avowedly express their intention to 'boost their tutor...
...seems to me to lose much of its value when (1) the students who are called upon to give their opinion are chosen by the department itself, and (2) when some of the men who are thus selected to represent undergraduate opinion avowedly express their intention to "boost their tutor...
Clearly, with no incentive for good teaching--in fact, when holding a teaching job demands that teaching be relegated to the background,--it is not surprising that the teaching level of the Physics department is at a discouragingly low ebb. Concentrators complain that tutorial is a farce. No tutor can be expected to give adequate attention to that part of his work when to do so is nothing short of suicidal. Three years are required to develop an inexperienced instructor into a good tutor; by that time one of two things has happened to him. He has tried to become...
...Peter '23, of the William T. Aldrich Co., architects, as Instructor in Architecture; Joseph B. Birdsell, 1G., of Boston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology '31, as Assistant in Anthropology; and Donald J. Grout, of Melrose, Mass., now teaching at Mills College, Oakland, Calif., Syracuse '23, as Assistant in Music and Tutor...