Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many Houses, tutor-student dinners have won enthusiastic praise. At Kirkland, for example, seven undergraduates and three tutors get together over sherry and a served meal in the private dining room. These small area dinners offer "another line of faculty-student communication," said Taylor, "and they give us a lot for our money...
Lowell House uses a slightly different approach. Instead of area dinners, tutors from four different fields each invite two students preferably not their own tutees. Instead of a dinner-table tutorial, there is, hopefully, a mixing of interests. "These meetings often last until 9 or 10," Perkins noted. Winthrop is another of the Houses which sponsors regular tutor-student dinners, and Master Owen observed that "Ford would be surprised to know how much of his money goes for sherry...
...idea for the joint arrangement came from Winthrop House tutors, who praised the mixed tutorial groups established this Fall. Owen pointed out that the Winthrop-Comstock combination was a "natural one," since Winthrop tutor Donald R. Brown serves, with his wife, as Head Resident of Comstock...
...more impressive difficulty to an expansion of the young head resident system lies in the fact that Radcliffe dorms have no facilities to provide attractive living quarters for an expanding family. However, if Radcliffe can contemplate spending enough money to install tutor's offices, they can probably find the wherewithall to improve head-residents' rooms...
...only difference is that the tutorial would be given for credit and that enrollment in it would be voluntary One University official who favors such a program estimates that it would attract twenty to thirty students in each department and would thus involve the addition of only three tutor hours a week...