Word: tutors
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...Resident tutors have an additional advantage, says James, assistant senior tutor of Cabot House...
...already been here and you're a valued tutor, they'd love to have you back again," James says of House staff. "In fact, they're happy and sad when you find a job. Happy for you and sad for them...
...before they decide that the broom closet down the hall from you might make for a new cozy single, administrators ought to focus their attention on the nearly 250 tutors who live among students as part of the resident tutor system...
...originally conceived, the tutorial system was part of a larger plan to make the Houses not only residential, but also academic communities. As part of then Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell's plan to construct residential colleges modeled after those at Oxford and Cambridge, resident tutors were to be matched up with a pair of students who lived in the House and were in his field of study. The tutor would work with those students over three years on all things academic, ultimately helping them prepare for oral exams and the such...
Indeed, I can barely think of one person I know well whose academics have been affected in a major way by a resident tutor in his or her House...