Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will guide the Crimson's '48 gridiron policy: from left to right, they are, Davey Nelson, backfield coach, head coach Art Valpey, "Butch" Jordan, line coach, and Captain Ken O'Donnell. The general staff will be completed tomorrow with the arrival of Elimer Madar, who will tutor the Crimson ends this fall...
...overworked professor, to whom he is scarcely known by name, for a letter of recommendation, the matter reaches a point of absurdity. Of course, the undergraduate can approach the problem more conscientiously and go to some section man he had two years before, or to his adviser or tutor. In most cases, however, if the instructor is still at Harvard, he has to refer to the student's official transcript, which the graduate school will have in any case...
...really needs a book in common demand, chances are good that he will not find it in his House library. It may be that someone in the library is poring over it, but the odds are against this; usually the book is just "missing" or is residing in some tutor's quarters. That tutors in residence may take books from the House library for an entire term is certainly an unfortunate, and possibly a vicious, practice. House libraries are primarily for the use of undergraduates; the fact that he lives in a House is not reason enough for a tutor...
...father sent Mirabeau to schools where he had little chance of succeeding, calculating that he could thus make his ultimate destination the reformatory. Mirabeau became a first-rate orator. He also fought, went into debt, seduced his tutor's daughter at 13. When he was 16 his father secured a lettre de cachet for him, applied it two years later...
...difficulty of the system is its expense. The question then is, are the available instructors being used to best advantage? I think they are not and what I suggest for consideration as a substitute is the seminar system, particularly as used at Swarthmore College. I feel that both the tutor's and the student's time would be far better spent in a four hour seminar of ten students than in ten individual one hour tutorial sessions. My experience as an auditor in a graduate seminar here leads me to believe that Harvard generally does not understand the seminar system...