Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gerald Else '29, senior tutor of Winthrop House and instructor in Greek and Latin, has accepted an appointment as head of the classical language department at the State University of Iowa. He will not take over the post until after the war, however, since he has obtained a leave of absence to enter government service...
...exceptions, since an hour of lab seems to many far more valuable than a personal talk. But an important area for science tutorial would be the liberal arts approach to those sciences, the history and application of the scientific method. A strong policy by the College of recognition of tutoring would help this problem as well as that of manpower; faculty-men would be more willing to tutor if they felt it was an important part of the curriculum, and if their other academic loads were lightened proportionately. Conference groups are an obvious way to lessen the drain on staff...
...beauty of tutorial lies in its breadth and diversity, and in the personal relationship between tutor and tutee which, as last year's Student Council report said, "forces the student to define his position to himself and to create his own perspective." It must be individual; no standardized reading list can do the job. It must be personal and spontaneous; course credit and exams are not the answer. Having proven itself invaluable, the tutorial system has been remodeled for the duration. In peace, strengthened and cleansed by the catharsis of war experience, it can attain, along with Harvard education...
Morrison does not remember just when he began and ended as an associate editor of the Atlantic Monthly and instructor, tutor, and assistant professor at Harvard. It is pretty well established that he graduated here in 1923, taught English for two years, and then joined the Atlantic staff. In those days the self-assured calm of the monthly had not attained the heroic proportions that recently made a semi-scandal out of color-of-cover innovations. Morrison indirectly participated in three memorable episodes when the Atlantic published Felix Frankfurter's Sacco-Vanzetti case analysis that stirred up a new trial...
What is needed is a greater correlation of tutorial work with the reading period. Instead of permitting tutorial assignments to lapse during the period, there should be a much higher degree of cooperation between student and tutor. Brevity of formal reading period assignments becomes an advantage if tutorial assignments permit adjustment to the ability of the individual student. The tutor should aid the student to conceive of the subject as a whole: at the same time, he should permit and help the student investigate those phases of the subject of greatest interest and value to him. Permitting a choice...