Word: tutors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first part of the Undergraduate program, all the visiting delegates were officially welcomed at a reception in the Eliot House Court yesterday afternoon. Speeches of welcome were made by John B. Bowditch '37, president of the Student Council, Dean Hanford, and John M. Potter '26, Head Tutor in Eliot House...
Alfred C. Hanford, Dean of Harvard College, will then speak on "The American College of Today," and H. R. X. D'Aeth of Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, will reply from the English standpoint. John M. Potter '26, instructor and tutor in History and Literature, will speak on "Harvard of Today and its Relation to Other American Colleges." He will be followed by William A. Carlile, Jr., President of the Class of 1936 at Princeton and President of the Princeton Undergraduate Council. The last event will be the presentation of insignia to Undergraduate Delegates from other Universities and Colleges...
...will open the meeting with a short address of welcome and will then introduce Dean Hanford who will make a speech as the official representative of the College. Mr. H. R. X. d'Aeth, official undergraduate representative from Cambridge University, England, will reply to this. John M. Potter, Senior Tutor of Eliot House, will then talk as a representative of that House, being followed by W. A. Carlile, Jr., of Princeton University. The meeting will be closed by the presentation of medals to all delegates...
...four-year course comes at the end of the Freshman year at Harvard instead of a year later as in many colleges. By the beginning of his Sophomore year 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 to a tutor attached to his own House. Of the tutorial staff of each House about 10 are resident in the House and 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 intimate intellectual contacts. At the same time every upperclassman carries a regular schedule of courses, expect that men out for honors can secure...