Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GETTING many more Senior Faculty members down to the Houses where they could get to know some students might take some of the pressure of writing recommendations off the Masters and Senior Tutors. But since that itself is so difficult a number of more immediate expedients are being discussed. Some Houses get pre-med and even pre-law advisors to help share the paper work burden, others find that men with no function but recommendation-writing have a hard time finding a place in the House. A couple of Houses have asked for an extra Assistant Senior Tutor...
...several years, Finley has been pushing a scheme which would systematize the whole business. He wants each residential tutor to take responsibility for six or seven students in the House, much in the way Freshmen are assigned to advisors. Senior Faculty would act "as the Master Sergeants in this scheme," Finley says. He insists that Harvard has a responsibility "to deal honorably with everybody and send them off strongly," and that there is little prospect for the University's doing so unless the function is made official...
...Master of Dunster House, the Allston-Burr Senior Tutor, and most of the resident tutors have signed a petition demanding that construction plans for Mather House be changed in order to permit the Dunster House dining hall to stay open next Spring...
Sekler said that he expects Albert Szabo, current chairman of the Department of Architecture, to become associate chairman of the new department and head tutor...
...found many students very good academically who wanted to explore a more advanced level of courses," Head Tutor Samuel F. Sampson said yesterday. "It might not be educationally best for them to write a thesis," he continued...