Word: tutors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eliot House's tutors, led by the universally respected John Conway, Aliston Burr Senior Tutor, are good. The present tutorial staff is particularly strong in English, Government, and History...
Milton I. Vanger, a Dunster history tutor who is resident in Claverly, summarizes this latter view: "The place has advantages all its own. The rooms are bigger; it is convenient to the Yard, and it is relatively informal. But the physical advantages are only part of the attraction. For you get the best of both worlds--full participation in House activities, as well as academic seclusion...
...congenial friendship among men of varying backgrounds. That situation has now somewhat deteriorated. A junior in the House recently remarked that there are not eight other students in the building he knew or liked well enough to sit down to a meal with. As a Lowell House tutor recently noted on viewing the consistent separate eating groups in the dining hall, "the white lines aren't on the floor but you can tell right where they ought to be painted...
...English and Economics, where department leaders have failed to give the necessary enthusiastic backing to the plan. In general, as long as advancement is based entirely upon scholarship, and little or no credit is given to men for the time spent in carrying out the duties of a good tutor, tutorial has a small chance of succeeding...
...many inherited traditions to help him. Mr. Coolidge, the first House master, imported a democratic version of the Oxford High table for the House. High Table now meets every other Monday night; the tower is lighted at six-thirty, ten seniors (invited in rotation) dine formally with the master, tutor, and guests on a raised dais at one end of the hall. Perkins puts his own touch to this institution as well as adding a weekly session of cucumber sandwiches presided over by Mrs. Perkins. There is a standing invitation for all House members...