Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There are two new features in the recently announced requirements of the Division of History, Government and Economics, namely, the general examination and the tutorial system. And they are complementary. The task of the tutor is to intelligently guide the student in his preparation for the final examination, to assist him in that organization and correllation of his work which is the key-note of the plan. His work begins where the adviser's work ends. The adviser still superintends the choice of courses made by the student although it is to be expected, probably, that a capable tutor will...
...general examination on the other hand, modelled after the plan in use for doctorate examinations, including a general examination for the division work and a supplementary special test for the department or field, reaches over the whole matter of choice and organization and focuses the work of the adviser, tutor and student...
...filled during the term of 1912-13 was 1643, while the positions for last summer numbered 540, making a total of 2,183. In all, 64 different kinds of positions are listed, there being over 100 in each of the following divisions: guide, clerk monitor, proctor, stenographer, ticket-taker, tutor and typewriter. The ticket-taker positions came first with 613, and those of guide next with 406. The highest average per man is $734.70, credited to the "tutor and companion" division, in which $12,490 was earned in all. The average of the newspaper correspondents is next with...
During the summer of 1913, the 36 men employed as "tutor and companion" earned $15,856, while the 32 who merely tutored earned $5,504.70. Of the 194 men for whom summer work was procured, the highest averages, outside of the tutor and companion division, were earned by the chauffeurs, stewards, camp councillors, assistants, and hotel employees...
...conditions of the bequest provide that three-fourths of the amount shall be devoted to the lecturer's salary, and one-fourth to the publishing of the lecture: that the lecture shall not form a part of the usual college course, nor be delivered by any professor or tutor as a part of his usual routine of instruction; and that the lecturer shall be appointed at least six months before the proposed delivery of the lecture. The date for this year's lecture has not been decided...