Word: tutors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the college's early days every undergraduate had a tutor. Student-tutor relations were close, for tutors had both disciplinary and academic functions. The 1642 rules required tutor's presence at meals "to prevent disorders", a student had to visit his tutor at 7 a.m. and 5 p.m., and he even needed permission to leave town...
President Lowell ushered in stricter concentration requirements and revived and expanded tutorial. Every faculty member was expected to tutor, and so, despite alumni and student opposition during the '30s, 95 percent of the college received tutorial. But of Lowell hopes that the number of course offerings would now decrease went unfulfilled departments still attracted how men by adding specialty courses...
Housemasters and tutors are unanimous in belittling student fears of "having a House Dean snooping on my cocktail parties. . . "Pointing out that much discipline has always been taken meted out in the Houses. Housemasters feel that this side of a tutor's function has been overemphasized, and that a student will gain by having at least one man on the Administrative Board who knows...
Ferry believes that "by the first of November students will be entirely at case and appreciate 'dinner-table deanery.' Brinser summed up the tutor's view: "The office of Senior Tutor is not a job of control by an attempt to find a way of carrying out relatively new ideas." Really this is the House reaching up to the Dean's Office, not vice versa; essentially the faculty has broadened the definition of education to include disciplinary functions with a teacher's educational duties...
...second question is parliamentary. While retaining faculty members, the eight Senior Tutors and Registrar Sargent Kennedy will be added to the Administrative Board. Working on the theory that the Senior Tutor's responsibility is to the Houses and the Administrative Board's to the University some have suggested that the Burr Tutors should play advocate and plead his housemaster's case before the Board who would then act as judges...