Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such an ideal has caused Housemasters, deans, and tutors yearly to deny or minimize the actual variations in the Houses. But their warnings have largely gone unheeded, for the real differences are patent and widely discussed. While 36 percent of the whole College is on the Dean's List, one of the Houses has 43 percent of its members on the list, while another has only 29 percent. The lower ranking House finds it almost impossible to acquire tutors, who are discouraged by the prospect of ministering to weak academic groups. The familiar story of the tutor in one House...
More commuters than ever before will apply for admission to the House next fall, Charles P. Whitlock, Senior Tutor for the Non-Resident Student Center, indicated yesterday...
...Center. In the past year the Commuter has won a more modern, adequate library, better dining facilities, and an expanded tutorial plan for the medical concentrator. Each of the advances has been due in large part to the students themselves, working in co-operation with Dudley's Senior Tutor. Their programs have been consistently encouraging, and deserve full credit...
About half of the students who visit the Bureau have been sent by their tutor or dean. Most of those who come feel that the Bureau will find a formula which will get them better marks, but Perry is careful to warn that the only valid solution to an individual's problems can come from the individual himself...
Much more serious than the practice of "canned answers" was the tutoring school habit of attempting to gain advance information about examinations. In one method, a member of the tutoring group would go to the examination, while all the others gathered with a tutor nearby. After glancing over the questions for a few minutes, their confederate inside would stroll nonchalantly out of the room for a smoke and then sprint for the rendez-vous, exam in hand. An experienced tutor could easily analyze an examination in a few minutes and deliver a quick lecture on the best answers. The tutorial...