Word: tutors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...temporary solution to this problem is for the tutor to have on hand figures which represent the actual amount of time required in each laboratory course. He should see to it that the real laboratory hours fit conveniently into a schedule in which the work of no one course will be crowded. The tutors in Biochemistry in partionlar, since they cannot straddle the fields of biology, chemistry, and physics with omniscience, should investigate and advise. But the clearing up of the whole confusion can only come through a correction of the advertised laboratory hours to take into consideration both...
Along with the decimation, in the face of legitimate beer, of the ranks of the campus bootlegger, another kind of bootlegger appears destined for gradual oblivion: the cramming school tutor. For years and years college and university authorities have striven with scant success (save in the case of Professor John L. Lowes, of Harvard, who allows students in his courses to bring all their text books into examinations) to circumvent the wily tutor. The Widow Nolan at Cambridge, Johnny Hun at Princeton, and Rosie at New Haven could seldom be outwitted. They perfected systems of question spotting that would drive...
...contacts among the tutees in a group would prove mutually valuable in most cases, and an alert tutor could easily evoke friendly rivalry which would have a very salutary effect upon the mental activity of the participants. But indeed, from the point of view of more technical educational theory, the method of the small class is known to be more successful than the method of individual instruction when matters of general background, rather than of specialized detail, are to be discussed; and the sophomore tutorial work has precisely this object in mind. (Name withheld by request...
...Currie, Instructor in the department of Economics and tutor in the department of History. Government and Economics...
Others honored are the following: W. C. Graustein '11, associate professor of Mathematics from 1926 to 1933 has been elected professor of Mathematics. M. H. Stone '22, associate professor of Mathematics at Yale since 1931 will come to Harvard next autumn as associate professor of Mathematics and tutor in Mathematics. He was a member of the department of Mathematics at Harvard from 1922, until he went to Yale in 1931. G. B. Kistiakowsky will serve as associate professor of chemistry. H. B. Cabot '17, a Boston lawyer and a graduate of the Harvard Law School has been appointed assistant professor...