Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Government 119 has resulted from several years of joint scholarship by the Rudolphs. They met in graduate school in 1951, when Lloyd was a tutor and Sue had just graduated from Sarah Lawrence. "We met over Aristotle," said Sue. "I needed some wise advice for a paper. Lloyd has been giving me wise advice ever since. We lived through each other's theses and have collaborated on four articles...
...advantage to increased emphasis on tutorial would be an improvement in the effective use of English, McCloskey said. Through individual conferences with a tutor, he felt, great strides could be made...
According to the proposal, an effort would be made to improve the quality of tutors, although this would require "a shift in the budget" to enable senior faculty members to tutor...
Taylor noted that, in a survey of opinion conducted by one Kirkland tutor, several students had expressed misgivings about the program. The main objections were that students might lose the benefit of having a separate tutor and section man, and would become isolated from students in different Houses...
Another Senior Tutor, Stewart, says, "My feeling is that anybody who really doesn't feel he should be here, should leave, except if he wants to leave because he thinks he's going to flunk the course. My feeling is that leaving is like constructing a building--often you must go back to get materials to complete the structure, a background to finish college...