Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...longer regard his extracurricular activity as merely extracurricular. It is a part of his curriculum, and it affects his standing in the community and his regard for himself. In his tutorial group he may flounder about for the answer, and blench under the cool satire of his tutor, but once inside his office he is a different person. This double role may conceivably lead the student-leader into almost a withdrawal into what might be termed academic schizophrenia in which he loses contact with the academic reality of Harvard and narrows his world to that of the group he heads...
...another Faculty attitude comes to mind, which appears unrelated to the present problem, but is still relevant to administration laissez-faire and general Yard apathy. One cannot help but note certain professors who appear rather bored with their large lecture courses, and House tutors who dislike to sit with students at dinner, a growing phenomenon noted by the Council Committee on the Houses. The sight of a tutor entering a dining hall, looking about in vain for his graduate friends, and proceeding to sit alone at an empty table, is a distressing one for the student who would like...
...pure intellectual superiority. However, the most reasonable explanation is found in "conscientiousness." Admittedly generalizations are dangerous, but Radcliffe students actually tend to do more work, to do greater amounts of reading, and to concentrate more upon marks. In the long run, girls come out ahead, Edward P.Morris, head tutor of the Department of Romance Languages, says. This superiority, however, is not due to innate ability, but rather to "instilled habits." "Fewer girls than boys get E's. Their average minimum level of conscientiousness is probably higher than the boys'," I. Bernard Cohen, associate professor of the History of Science, points...
Increased tutor participation in House activities, universal sophomore tutorial within the House, and the selection of a House co-ordinator for the difficult first meeting were cited as the weapons for such an attack...
Franklin L. Ford, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Lowell House, will become professor of History...