Word: tutors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...number of courses for concentration were cut down or eliminated, a man might spend part of his college career taking courses of broadening nature, while at the same time, he could work under a tutor in his special field of concentration, progressively devoting more time to this in the course of his four years...
...Competent tutors must be provided. The academic system at Harvard as it is today is paradoxical, the focal point of everything being the tutor, who is more often than not unsuited to the task. Tutors should be brilliant men with above average minds, who have mastered their subject in its breadth, and are specialists in some phase of it, men who are interested in teaching, and who like to work with young men. They must have attractive and interesting personalities, and should be neither young nor old. And, furthermore, they must be well paid. No man of this calibre...
...undergraduate has little chance for contact with men in other departments whose differing fields and whose intellectual make-up might be of benefit in giving him a symmetrical and well rounded view of his work, and in many departments the student remains under the guidance of the same tutor during his Sophomore, Junior, and Senior years. With the ever increasing emphasis on tutorial work at the expense of the regular courses he will be more and more dependent on the guidance of his tutor and less on that of the lecturers whom he hears. The proposed joint conferences will offer...
...Senior writing a thesis for honors, or pursuing a strictly graduate course, is given the privilege of access to the stacks in Widener. To avail himself of this he must obtain a certificate from his tutor, or from the professor in charge of the course, and present this certificate to the Superintendent of Circulation, who grants the permit for a limited time or number of visits...
...argument because of the present straightened circumstances of University finances. However, if the two most important aspects of the development of education at Harvard are the tutorial system and the House plan, it is obvious that an improved advisory system is imperative; for the choice of concentration field, tutor, and House must all be made in the first year, before it is possible for the student to have formed a competent basis for judgment. An excellent tutor in Mathematics is of little avail to a man whose interest is primarily in Biology or English, concentrating in Mathematics because Math...