Word: tutoring
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That is a large assumption, but it is at least half true--the bulk of a student's contact with faculty members is likely to be not with the Galbraiths, Eriksons, and Freunds, but with the teaching fellows, instructors, and occasional assistant professors who teach his sections, who tutor in his House or in his department...
Isaac Kramnick '59, who will be head tutor in Government next year, said that the basic reason for the projected change in the grading of senior tutorial is that the grade in Gov 99 is usually super-flous. "The grade has stood all these years because the official description of the course has been the thesis and material in the field. This has been a euphemism for many years for the thesis and a certain amount of cramming for general examinations," Kramnick added. He noted that tutors "either send in an A-" or try to predict the thesis grade...
...proposal has thus far met with little opposition, Kramnick said, and only one counter-proposal has been presented. This suggestion would have made the Gov 99 grade like the Gov 98 grade, which is based half on the tutor's grade and half on the junior essay...
Other Faculty members are Ernest R. May, Senior Tutor of Kirkland House; Carl Kaysen, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy and an Associate of Kirkland House; Oscar Handlin, Winthrop Professor of History and a Fellow of Leverett House; and B.J. Whiting '25, professor of English and a Fellow of Lowell House...
...beginning of La Lecon, the pupil is admitted to the professor's study. She has ribbons in her hair, a vacuous stare, chewing gum, a copy of Elle, and a youthful, overpowering spontaneity. Her new tutor enters: striped necktie, fuzzy bead, stiff-bearing, and a fixed gaze which could be either intense or myopic. The lesson begins...