Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stanley H. Hoffmann, head tutor of the Government Department, said that the Department has "informally changed" the structure of tutorial groups in the past year, organizing a number of mixed groups in various Houses. The change was made "because Radcliffe girls seemed to feel discriminated against, and also because the mixed groups seemed to work better," he said...
John M. Bullitt '43, head tutor of the English Department, said that a system of Radcliffe tutors with offices in the Quadrangle would "add responsibility to the Radcliffe community which it at present perhaps lacks." He felt that such additions would initiate an "intellectual atmosphere within Radcliffe's own boundaries...
...having tutors as a part of the life of a residence hall, "a certain contact and understanding between student and tutor becomes possible that is not available in the general context of the University," Edward P. Morris, head tutor of the Romance Languages Department, said. He added that this relationship is "the substance of the tutorial system...
Another major problem facing the new committee is the composition of tutorial groups. Stanley H. Hoffman, head tutor in the Government Department, said that that department has "informally changed" its organization of tutorial...
...similar movement took place in the Social Relations Department a few years ago, Thomas F. Pettigrew, head tutor in that department noted. Mixed Sophomore tutorial groups meeting in the Houses were instigated "not as a conscious policy of the Department, but because both boys and girls wanted...