Word: tutoring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Leverett House dinner, at 6.30 o'clock this evening, will be followed by informal entertainment in the Junior Common Room. Kenneth B. Murdock '16 professor of English, and Theodore Morrison '23, instructor in English, will read selections of their own choice. John R. Walsh, tutor in Economics, will render several baritone solos, to be followed by a group of piano numbers by Morton P. Kahn '34, and a 'cello selection by Frederic H. Tunnell '35. The program will be concluded by an original skit presented by Robert M. Terrall '36. Elting E. Morison 1G, a former chairman of the House...
Under a fully developed tutorial system such as the CRIMSON outlined on Friday and Saturday of last week, one of the initial problems to be solved would be that of examinations. Since the course system would be abolished and since it would create a chaotic situation for every tutor to grade his own tutees, the only solution would be the creation of a special board in every department to set the examinations in the manner that the Senior divisionals are set at present. These examinations, coming at the end of the year, would contain a great number of alternative questions...
Less general was the statement of a tutor in the department of Economics, who spoke concerning the suggested reduction of expenditures in his department, "On first consideration, it seemed to me that the Tutorial System was of so great importance that any reduction would be fantastic. After thinking the matter over, however, I realize that there is much waste motion in the System's operation, which it would be desirable to eliminate...
...first step, then, must be for the departments to persuade their leading men to become tutors. It is a type of work worthy of the finest minds, and is emphatically not beneath the dignity of full professors, or brilliant research men. The future success of tutorial work depends to a large extent upon these men consenting to take over a few tutees. In this connection, the University ought to pursue a definite policy of lending prestige to the position of tutor. In some degree, this will naturally result from a system of limiting the number of tutors...
...however, ought to have a chance to work with a tutor. The decision as to whether a particular student should continue could be made to depend both upon reports by the tutor, and upon the honest confession of the student himself. By the beginning of the Junior year, the select group of tutees ought to be chosen. These men would at once be allowed a reduction of one course per year, and their work would be recognized by the dean's office as at least the equivalent to that required by one course. The only record, however, which the dean...