Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other tutors in the original group had what one called more "teacherly" reasons for dissatisfaction. They complained they felt helpless in a senior tutorial situation that forced them to supervise theses on topics unfamiliar to them. After a few meetings, the tutee often knew more about his topic than his tutor did, and the tutors felt they were reduced to mere technical supervision, unable to contribute very much to the undergraduate's effort. Also, they were looking for a way to teach rather than simply to tutor, an arrangement that would allow them to take a more creative role...
...rank listing for an honors senior to Group III from Group IV, in order to filter out the less able thesis writers. The other was to establish a system of senior seminars as an alternative to the thesis. Each six to eight-person seminar would be led by a tutor and would be concentrated on a specific subject, such as the Progressive Era in America. Each participant would write a 40-page paper -- about half the length of a standard History thesis -- and would receive some form of Departmental honors. Some tutors in the Department were convinced that the seminar...
...number of reasons for the junior faculty's impotence in determining Departmental policy. "What is bugging people is inevitable in the structure of the University," one junior faculty member commented. "That is, that you have great men with incredible power over masses of graduate students and their careers." A tutor who aspires to a post at another college after receiving his degree must depend heavily on the recommendation of senior faculty members at Harvard...
...positions on the Harvard faculty, there is a rapid turnover of ambitious young men that quickly erodes any attempt at a sustained reform movement. "At Harvard you don't go that far that fast, and you don't get the feeling that it's your department," said one History tutor. "You're going to leave--not get fired, you're going to want to leave...
...tutors apparently underestimated the strength of the senior faculty's commitment to the thesis as an educational instrument. "The senior faculty feels very strongly that the thesis is the backbone of the entire program," said one tutor. The thesis is invaluable as "a pedagogical tool," said Gordon S. Wood, the Department's assistant senior tutor, which "gives the student the best understanding of the nature of history that he will get in four years here." The senior seminar would have bypassed the thesis, and there were also financial difficulties in setting up a large seminar program...