Word: tutors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...however, a student who received his tutor's permission were allowed to sign off board, neither difficulty would arise. No slew of rate adjustments would bom-bard the bursar's office, for the privilege would be restricted to those on scholastic missions. But the College and its officers should be aware that by remitting the board charges they may encourage needy students to do valuable research on theses, work which might otherwise be neglected...
Arguing that typed exams would considerably reduce their work load, and at the same time put all students on an equal competitive level, almost every tutor reached in a random check strongly favored the use of typewriters...
...third in a series of attacks in the college vicinity this year, and the second within a week. Last Wednesday a man tried to accost a Radcliffe senior in the Cambridge Common while she was was returning to her dormitory, and on November 30 a Leverett House tutor was assaulted by four youths as he was walking back to his House along Plympton Street...
Tutorial succeeds best when it involves only one student and one tutor. Then the motivation is not the grade, but the desire to prove one's thoughts to a man one respects. To be caught up unprepared in an individual tutorial makes one feel like a fool, and avoiding this is a greater motivation than the possibility of an honors grade at the end of the term...
...College is burdened with enough grades as it is. Improvement of tutorial will come only from more subtle measures, which will improve student and tutor interest: careful planning of each tutorial, use of tutors only within their fields of interest, and a softening of the more confining departmental requirements for tutorial curricula. Only when the student wants to work because of the intrinsic interest of the material and the enthusiasm of the tutor will tutorial produce real education...