Word: tutors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This summer about 400 students have held vacation positions, many of them as tutor-companions or camp councillors...
...year course comes at the end of the Freshman year at Harvard instead of a year later as in many colleges. By the end of his first year, if not before, the student is expected to be ready to do work of university grade and to work under a tutor...
Each Sophomore is assigned a tutor in the Field of Concentration he has elected, usually a tutor attached to his own House. Of the tutorial staff of each House about ten are resident in the House, while the rest have temporary studies there. The student meets his tutor about once a week, eats with him occasionally, and is expected, in one way or another, to absorb a good deal of learning and to benefit from the intellectual contact. At the same time every upperclassman carries a regular schedule of courses...
...Kappa will be on Friday. The exercises, which are open to the public, will begin at 11:30 o'clock in Sanders Theatre. John G. Winant, former Chairman of the Social Security Board and former Governor of New Hampshire, will be the Orator; and Daniel Sargent '13, Instructor and Tutor in History and Literature, will be the Poet. Samuel Williston, Dane Professor of Law at Harvard and President of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, will preside...
Comments on some of the men were: Lake, McIlwain, Langer -- brilliant scholars and lecturers. Karpovich: now examiner, excellent tutor. Baxter. Forceful lecturer, sometimes gives opinions as facts; scholar, good tutor. Ferguson: scholar; dull but good lecturer with small groups; better on Greece than Rome. Haring: scholar; covers large field well. Morison: scholar, good lecturer. Brinton, Buck, McKay, Jordan: good lecturers; excellent tutors. Schlesinger: scholar; most of time to graduate students; dull lecturer. Merk: careful; good lecturer; scholar. Doolin: poor lecturer; excellent tutor. Evans, Fairbank, Gleason: good tutors...