Word: tutors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more general results of the Poll, one of the most significant suggestions, and one which could with ease be read into many ballots, was the actual acquire a place of their own, irrespective of the whole course. If for example, a man's field were Anthropology, his tutor would send him to individual lectures in other department, thus obviating the need for the student's absorbing the welter of material distributed over a whole course. Unhappily, tutoring is the most expensive means of education, and lecturing the cheapest, precluding for the immediate present the prospect of fulfilling so interesting...
Benjamin F. Wright, Jr., Assistant Professor of Government and Tutor in the Division of History, Government, and Economics, will be Acting House Muster during Dean Murdock's absence. Wright is at present a resident tutor in Leverett House...
...Anne Sullivan Macy, lifetime companion and tutor of blind Helen Keller, bedded herself in a Manhattan hospital, had a cataract removed from her left eye. Blind in her right eye, Mrs. Macy was rapidly losing the sight of her left. Last week doctors hoped she would be able to read again, not have to use the Braille system which she once taught Miss Keller and which Miss Keller has lately been teaching back...
Other features of the issue include a short story and a poem by Frank E. Sweetser '36, an article, "Curricular Prescription" by Charles Rockwell '36, and a story, "Third Class" by John A. Strauss '36. The issue will be reviewed by Dr. Perry G. E. Miller, instructor and tutor of History and Literature, in tomorrow's CRIMSON...
Typical of the situation is Leverett House, where, although the tutors' table perseveres, undergraduates are permitted to dine at it when accompanied by a tutor, and tutors may sit at the regular tables with students. Although a certain amount of contact is made in this way, the average number of tutors sitting with students each meal is about two or three. At Eliot House, where the tutors' table is under heaviest and steadiest fire, and rightfully too, the event of a tutor dining with a student is in the nature of a minor phenomenon. Similar conditions in the other Houses...