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...often been remarked that the important thing in education is not the doctrine taught but the awakening of the student. The tutorial system is a recognition of this truth. The most important benefit conferred by the direct contact between a student and a tutor is just this: that the student may receive a new stimulus to intellectual development and respond to it by what is truly an awakening of his more or less dormant powers. The tutorial system not only is a powerful instrument for effecting such a transformation, but is helping to bring it about earlier in the student...
...from Chicago to Santa Rosa, N. M., where it joins the El Paso & Southwestern (a branch of the Southern Pacific). Other lines stretch from St. Louis to Kansas City, St. Paul and Minneapolis. Altogether it covers 14 Midland states. At St. Louis, Kansas City, Memphis and elsewhere it makes contact with the Frisco. Thus the southern termini of the merged lines will be Pensacola, Fla., on the east, and Fort Worth, Tex., on the west; in the north Chicago, St. Paul and Minneapolis; in the west Denver; and in the near east, St. Louis. The proposed merger brings out some...
...University that means for accomplishment are going hand in hand with a realization of the need. The tutorial system extends itself to the department of mathematics. Candidates for distinction are allowed much greater liberty. Tutors are installed in the Yard dormitories with the express purpose of coming in closer contact with their charges not at all as proctors, but on a footing of human acquaintanceship and common possession of intellectual interests. Not the least welcome feature of President Lowell's annual report was its decided indication that, building on the tutorial system as a foundation, the University is feeling...
Efforts so far have been directed generally toward taking the curse of pedantic dust off valuable and fruitful knowledge by stifling the preparatory school distinction between master and pupil; and the resourses that lie in contact between students dealing in the same fields have been neglected to some extent, although the example of European universities proves that, properly directed, such contacts are as fertile as any between the student and even the most sympathetic tutor. The group meetings in which overworked tutors take refuge are, as yet, the only places where undergraduates of the same intellectual tastes, as indicated...
...recent report called attention to the narrowness of the training which candidates for the doctorate undergo. In the current Alumni Bulletin is significant comment on one phase of this subject: "The average graduate student is greatly stimulated and enriched not only by his opportunities for study, but by his contact with his fellow-students, and carries the memory and the inspiration to the end of his days. But the social values are realized not because of, but in spite of, the conditions of his life in Cambridge. These men are the future professors of American colleges and universities, through whom...