Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might be added that Dunster has an unexcelled library in English History and Economics and an adequate supply of books in other fields. In History an excellent tutorial staff is headed by Professor Haring, the Master, with Mr. Buck and Professor Brinton; in Economics Professor Harris, the Senior Tutor, with Professor Mason, Professor Schumpeter and Mr. Sweezy; and in English by the affable Dr. Noyes, Dr. Souers, and Mr. White. Professor Friedrich, who keeps discreetly silent about Herr Hitler, will talk interestingly and instructively about any other aspect of Government, and Mr. Cline, our anthropologist, is particularly helpful when countries...
...Hungarians, Bela Bartok and Kodaly; no modern German or Austrian except Schoenberg; some Russians, but no Prokofleff. The final shock comes when he finds modern America represented solely by MacDowell and Foote. Upon regaining his senses, the poor student borrows what he can from the private collection of his tutor, the pages of whose music are already falling apart from being loaned too often...
...educational facilities, Adams House sets the pace for all the units of the plan. on its staff is the largest number of tutors of any house, and the staff covers the largest number of tutorial fields, having, for instance, the only available tutor in Sociology. The House library is particularly complete, and is especially strong, as is the tutorial staff, in the division of History, Government, and Economics...
...necessary antagonism exists between the tutorial and course systems. Yet in the present state, warfare is continuous and bitter. Every student must allot his time between the two. On the one side, there is the intellectual stimulus of a tutor, the joy in work for its own sake, and the risk of being fired from the benefits of college because of neglect of courses. On the side of the course system, there is the lure of honors for the bright and hard-working, perhaps a scholarship; for the slow, the assurance that he will remain in the academic folds until...
Since the existing machinery is so deplorably defective, it must be repaired and replaced. Each department should create a committee of perhaps five or six members, including the chairman and senior tutor, which would deal exclusively with student problems. The committee members should hold office hours in rotation. Then the burden would not be too great for any one individual and yet there would be some representative always available. The mere fact that there was somebody always "on tap" and that there was a similar organization within each department would encourage students to settle their difficulties...