Word: tutors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Potter, a lineal descendant of the poet John Milton, was a member of the 1925-26 track team and of the Glee Club while in College. After his graduation he served as an instructor and in 1931 was appointed to Eliot House as a tutor in History and Literature. He is married and lives at 84 Prescott St., Cambridge...
Matthiessen, a Yale graduate, has occupied the position of head tutor during the two years of Eliot House's existence. He was active in forming the Eliot House Elizabethan Club and, with Theodore Spencer, instructor in English, coached and took part in the play, "A Shoemaker's Holiday," which the club put on this year. Professor Matthiessen's resignation as head tutor was brought about by his desire to spend all his time on his other work. He will continue as a tutor in History and Literature in Eliot House...
Professor Matthiessen's resignation leaves only three of the original seven head tutors still occupying their positions. They are: Allan Evans '24, Leverett; R. G. Noyes, Dunster; and J. A. Ross, Adams. D. V. Brown '25, head tutor of Kirkland House, resigned last month, while Mason Hammond '25 and P. S. Wild, Jr. resigned last year from their posts in Lowell and Winthrop Houses...
Quite possibly this conclusion is correct, but it would be safer to assume simply that the compensation offered the tutor, both financially and in prestige, does not offset the satisfaction of lecturing, and the more mysterious pleasures of research. The University is being forced to pay a heavy price for the unwillingness of the older members of the Faculty to accept tutees. The lack of interest and experience manifested by so many of the present tutors is generating a corresponding slackness in the average student, and the first efforts of the new administration ought to be aimed at correcting...
...this connection it has already been suggested the possibility of restricting the benefits of the tutorial system to those students who are clearly fitted for it. That many tutors also approve of this idea was made clear by the replies which the questionnaire evoked earlier in the year. Such a restriction would really amount to little more than recognizing the distinction between the "pass" and "honors" degree which already exists at Harvard in fact. Another and possibly more effective method of achieving the same end would be for the University to appoint one or more men, chosen either from Harvard...