Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House System that is concealed by the "folk lore" is the extent to which the eight residential Houses are similar; they all have just about the same mix of scholastic ability, athletic prowess, social and geographical background, and political, literary, musical, or artistic commitment. Each has a Master, Senior Tutor, and staff who work hard to make their House of focal point for a wide varsity of intellectual and social activities. All participate, with intermittent success, in intramural athletics and have some representation on the varsity teams. All are overcrowded, and the frequency of complaints about the food is about...
...spring but your parents just got a copy of your February grades, your tutor is threatening to ask you to leave the department, and your girl at home announced her engagement to your best buddy who stayed behind to go to the local junior college. Before you dive off Weeks Bridge, come to the CRIMSON comp introductory meeting at 7:30 p.m. tonight. See if the distractions of Harvard and Cambridge, as seen by a CRIMSON comper, don't help you survive. Then jump off the bridge...
...idea, the House offerings have other advantages. Chalmers (who teaches Nat Sci 1 himself) claims benefits from the courses other than the obvious conveniences of flexible meeting times and easy accessibility between teachers and students. Chalmers envisions the House courses as opening new lines of communication between tutors and students. Through the courses, a student could gain close contact with other members of the House tutorial staff and through them, the kind of extra-departmental advice his regular tutor may be unable to provide...
...asking the state for a delay, the Council was joined yesterday by Edward J. McCormack, former attorney general and now a candidate for governor. Barney Frank '61, assistant senior tutor in Winthrop House, read the Council telegrams that McCormack sent to Gov. John A. Volpe and DPW commissioner Francis W. Sargent...
Under the new procedure, all final decisions will be made by the Committee on Assignments, composed of Faculty members, Deans, one Master and one senior-tutor...