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...those who have been listening hopefully for some official word about the extension of the tutorial system, the personal views of Professors Ford and Howard expressed on another page of this issue are very welcome. With the well-founded general criticism of the Modern Language divisionals last spring and the report of the Scholarship Committee of the Student Council the "situation seems now to call for attention", as Professor Howard says. And it is gratifying to learn that it ought soon to be "brought for discussion...
Professor Ford, in his statement of the case, has pointed out the difficulties attending the extension. That the financial one is not of prime importance seems to be clear from the statement. Undoubtedly the question of securing a sufficient number of men of tutorial ability is a great problem. Yet since one tutor could probably take care of at least fifteen students, the number of tutors necessary would not be impossibly large. And as for securing men of proper calibre, the same problem arises in securing professors and assistants. Furthermore men versed in three languages would only be needed...
...short of effecting the end for which they were devised. If the extension of the tutorial system will fill this bill, then surely the attempt will be justified. As to that one can only estimate on the analogy of the department of History, Government and Economics. Although Professor Ford says that "there is some discussion as to whether the system has been an unqualified success" there, unqualified successes are few and even qualified success would be worth the candle...
...When the Division of Modern Languages accepted the general examinations there was a distinct understanding that this acceptance did not imply the immediate institution of a tutorial system," said Professor J. D. M. Ford, chairman of the Department of Romance Languages in an interview yesterday. "There was at the time in the division a very decided sentiment against such a system. As a matter of fact the general examinations were only accepted on trial and not with any definite understanding that they were to become a permanent institution. The division however, is never hidebound and if good reasons...
...Scholarship Committee recommending that the tutorial system be extended to include the Division of Modern Languages. The question raised by this report is by no means a new one. Members of the division have at various times considered the advantages and disadvantages of such a system. Professor Ford further said...