Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which the Dean offers to throw over us, and in reaffirming our commitment to academic freedom accurately defined. Perhaps the Administration should show less concern for the privacy of a Professor's lecture platform and more for the privacy of an undergraduate's room. Barney Frank, Ass't. Sr. Tutor, Winthrop House
...however. They are an indication for graduate and professional schools of how well students have performed the tasks assigned to them. And there is no reason why "99" courses should not give such evaluations while other courses continue to. Having met with a student an hour a week, the tutor should have a good idea of his level of performance by the end of the first semester--in time for graduate schools to see the grades...
...plan, originated by Isaac Kramnick '59, Head Tutor in Government, was designed to end "the total anarchy of sophomore tutorial." It would have focused on twentieth-century political science, stressing the contrast between traditional and original approaches. Each tutor was to plan his own reading list on this topic...
Present plans allow a tutor to choose either the experimental plan or the traditional course, which devotes one term to American government and one to international relations. In his memo, Kramnick expressed the hope that comparison of these two approaches will lead to a consensus on the future of sophomore tutorial...
...Several tutors offered objections to the idea of a uniform program for sophomores. Barney Frank '62 stated that tutorial "ought to be tighter than it was," but that each tutor should be able to "play to his strengths...