Word: tutors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Government faculty voted Monday to abolish the Gov 98 junior essay exam beginning next year. There will be no change in procedure this year. Francis G. Hutchins '60, head tutor, said yesterday...
Abolishment of the four-day take-home essay will mean that a student's tutor will determine his tutorial grade. Currently half of the grade is based on the essay, which is marked by a committee of professors...
...Both the students and the teaching fellows voted overwhelmingly to have Gov 98 graded exclusively by the tutor and to abolish the present essay exam procedure," Hutchins said. Approximately 10 per cent of the concentrators and 50 per cent of the tutors came to the meetings...
Daniel M. Fox, head tutor in History and a member of the Committee, said that "the selection board and the exact criteria for awarding the funds have not yet been established." He added that the these could be in concentrations ranging from Government to Fine Arts...
Both History and Social Studies allow tutors to have change of the junior tutorials they conduct and to report grades for their students. For some reason, Government has set up a committee unfamiliar with a student's tutorial to judge whether he should receive a different grade then his tutor recommends, and to make that decision on the basis of a ten-page paper which could at best represent only a portion of his tutorial work. Giving responsibility to tutors would be a more complete remedy for the arbitrary grading in Gov 98 then the partial measure the department...