Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Board of the Illustrated has done well to take up again the question of "The College Tutor," and their chief editorial "The Larger Courses: A Suggestion," merits careful consideration on the part of professors
Cedric Wing Houghton '13, Charles Wyman, South Boston, Private tutor...
...collateral conferences proved to add much to the interest of the course. But the plan as applied to undergraduates in general has its drawbacks. If undergraduate "human nature" were perfect, or if all the distractions,--subtle and otherwise,--which lead to procrastination and alas! too often to the professional tutor, could be swept away, then the "conference programme" would undoubtedly be a long step in advance toward thorough scholarship. As it is now, however, the proposed plan is directly opposed to the policy of more frequent tests, urged by the Student Council, as necessary to bring about regular and consistent...
...examinations and that greater stress be placed upon frequent hour examinations. The Council maintains that the present system, with its unique emphasis on final examinations, puts a premium on irregular work and results in a vast amount of eleventh-hour "cramming" that makes easy the path of the professional tutor. In our editorial of May, 24, to which the writer of the communication refers, we set forth the suggestions of the Student Council and pointed out that the adoption of their proposals would result in more regular and systematic work and less "cramming" with professional tutors for the all-important...
...Student Council and the writer of your editorial of May 24 are at fault, I think, both as to the best method of grading men's work, and as to the influence which the change they propose would have on professional tutoring. As, however, my concern here is with tutoring only, and as I have no desire to trespass upon the preserves of the pedagogical theorists, I need say regarding the grading merely that a piece-meal disposal of a course does not seem to me to spell scholarship. Regarding the second point, however, I can deal with facts...