Word: tutoring
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...written during four days in Reading Period and evaluated by a committee of examiners unconnected with the tutorial program. Thinking that this four-day exercise too closely resembles a final exam, the department has suggested that students simply choose a paper they have written during the year for their tutor and submit that to the committee...
Relying on the grading committee, however, undermines the whole concept of tutorial education. Honors programs are designed to provide personal and continuous instruction for the concentrator. Their value comes from the regular interchange between tutor and student. As weekly dialogues, tutorials cannot be treated as narrowly directed courses which can be put together at the end of the term and distilled into a paper or a final examination. A single ten-page paper could never adequately represent a student's over-all record in tutorial; only the tutor could properly evaluate his student's year-long performance...
Henry C. Binford '66, who is in his second year at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, will be a tutor in history. Binford said that he was "looking forward" to living in Winthrop House during his first year as a tutor. He added that he was only "normally apprehensive" about...
Gregory K. Pilkington '67, a student at Harvard Law School and currently a proctor in Hollis Hall, will also be a tutor in Winthrop House next year. In addition to regular tutorial duties, Pilkington will be the House librarian...
...last black tutor to reside in a house was James L. Gibbs Jr., who was a resident in Adams House in 1955-56. Although none of the houses have had black resident tutors for the last 13 years, black graduate students are currently associated with many of the houses as tutors. Besides Pilkington, there are two other black proctors in the freshman dormitories...