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...matter of the "high table" which is promised for the Master and tutors. One wonders what place in the social scheme these faculty tables will occupy. Used as a permanent separation in the dining hall the "high table" might, as the CRIMSON has before pointed out, usurp a desirable contact between preceptor and student. But other use of the "high tables" could be made besides one that follows the Oxford-Cambridge idea of segregation of tutors and students. Occasional use of the "high table" as a gathering place of the House resident and non-resident tutors would serve to coordinate...
...professors in preparing and dictating lectures, by section leaders in conducting large and cumbersome discussion groups, by readers--those most pitiable and degenerate academic parasites--in grading blue books. But even though this dead loss were turned to good account, more instructors and tutors would be necessary. Intimate personal contact between students and faculty is one of the first requisites of any educational institution...
Harvard neither desires nor is fitted for a wholesale adoption of the English tutorial structure. But in restricting the students' opportunity for a tutorial contact to the guidance of a single preceptor it seems more than likely that she has rejected one of the chief advantages of the older system...
...main function of the tutorial system is to allow the student contact with specially trained scholars whose knowledge of their subjects consists in more than an ability to compile an acceptable list of authorities the advantages of the Oxford plan cannot be denied. The specialist in American history is not likely to offer a deep understanding of medieval thought or of the Greek city state. It is only by working under a number of men, all of whom are doing special work in different periods, that the student of history has a fair chance of becoming imbued with a sympathetic...
...much emphasis is ordinarily laid upon intercollegiate athletics as a means of bringing colleges together, that one is tempted to overlook the quieter, more informal opportunities for contact. Newspaper headlines and brass bands blind the eye and dull the ear to all but the most spectacular events. And there is certainly nothing spectacular about a meeting of thirteen deans unless it be good material for the nightmare of a dropped Freshman...