Word: tutors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seven House masters and the Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Dudley have been given $2400 for educational purposes from the Ford Foundation grant made to the University two years ago. This is an increase of $1,000 over the amount allocated to the Houses last year by the Corporation...
...entered our minds. We met through the spring to write what we hoped would be a mature kind of examination, one which eliminated course-type questions and gave more play to a student's intellectual independence and imagination--the qualities, we felt, of good honors candidates. Nothing like a "tutor shortage" existed then or now. The twelve losses of last spring were more than replaced by the eighteen new students taken in last week and tutors in some fields are still somewhat under strength. I believe there is no possibility that the examining system initiated last spring will...
...that pass candidates apply for a course-reduction was made because several students came to us and asked if there was any way to do a major piece of research and writing in their senior year. Our tutorial staff is sufficiently large to accommodate all of our concentrators with tutors, even those seniors who are not permitted to submit a thesis. Each spring, of course, we do as you recommend we do: we take a count before admitting new students to the field. Let that student who has no tutor throw the first stone...
Anyone (including the senior tutor) who generalizes about the quality of tutorial in all of any field is probably on shaky ground, but the CRIMSON's remarks about ours seem particularly hasty. You make two points. First, that honors seniors cannot have tutorial with senior members of the faculty, as presumably they may in other fields; and second, that "most of the tutors are young instructors or graduate students and ... students are often assigned to a tutor with a different field of interest than their own." About the first point, members of the Committee have long ago expressed themselves...
Sorry for giving what they admitted was a "loaded" exam and seeing that many concentrators with honor grades could no longer go out for honors and write theses, the tutors pulled a complete about face. They promised to recommend each concentrator, who failed, for a senior-year course reduction, in which he or she could write a protothesis--a thesis-length term paper. This move did not greatly ease the tutor shortage...