Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bart J. Bok, Associate Professor of Astronomy and tutor; and John Paraskevopules, Associate Professor of Astronomy...
Strictly speaking, no one should object to this new tack taken by the professors. Nothing could be more fair. There is no invalid discrimination. The only ones who are hit are those who tutor. The student who has honestly tried and still is not able to think with originality on an examination should--hard as this may seem--get a low grade anyway. All others are not affected, for the exams are not made harder, but only more thought-provoking...
...Tutoring is going to pay lower returns this year. The wise bird might well figure the return too low for an investment. he might also realize that the faculty has awakened, and that the examination system is on trial. Many will still have to tutor because they have been caught out in the rain. The others had better take their money to the races...
...work of each student "tutor" has far greater implications than mere teaching of English or Economics. His objective is the attempt to clear up a national problem--the widening gap between high school and employment. Vividly apparent from the swelling ranks of the C. C. C., the N. Y. A., and the W. P. A., the struggle of youth to find an opening in private industry is becoming more acute each year. Claiming that public education has failed to prepare its graduates for their place in life, the Gulick report to the New York Board of Regents last fall favored...
Toastmaster of the evening will be Samuel E. Morison '08, professor of History. William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, will comment on early Harvard trophies, and Charles H. Watkins '09, Reginald Fitz '06, Marshal of the University, and Philip P. Chase '00, lecture and tutor, will speak...