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Nothing new can be urged in discussing the function of the tutor, but so long as generally accepted principles are violated there is a reason for reasserting them. The main criticism of tutorial method has been leveled at "coaching". Obviously enough, the syringe-sponge combination is to be avoided above all things. Tutorial conferences should not be private lectures, in which the student plays a wholly passive role. Massage cannot take the place of exercise in developing the mind any more than it can in developing the body...
Rightly, and inevitably, tutors will decide on their own methods of instruction, but they ought always to be guided by the axiomatic principles of the tutorial function. Among these unwritten laws the first would be to avoid being primarily a convenient encyclopedia of useful information. And the second would be like unto it: to give the student some insight into the problems of his field and to inspire him to study them intelligently for himself...
...formal announcement that the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art will cease to function as an exhibiting group after its current exhibition appearing in the Harvard Cooperative Building is over was tentatively confirmed last evening by Mrs. Paul Herzog, present executive of the organization. Unless what at the present time seems a hopeless financial situation is unexpectedly remedied, the present exhibit which is characterized as setting a "new high" in the association's history will close the history of this organization, which was founded by Harvard undergraduates three years...
Main purpose of the corporation would be to create second mortgages rather than to maintain their liquidity, which will be the function, for prime first mortgages. of the President's Home Loan Discount Bank system. Homes costing $15,000 or less would be favored. If the corporation gets started, a prospective builder of a $15,000 house would not have to have the $4,000 or more of cash usually required above his first mortgage to start building. He could get a second mortgage from the corporation for this amount, build a home without putting up any real money...
...that it was possible to cut the head from off the body and allow the intellect to exist without nourishment of any king. George Bernard Shaw thought the conceit a quaint one, it would save his getting dressed in the morning and allow him to exert his only important function unhampered, so he toyed idly with the idea in the columns of the London Times. Mr. Shaw is still at large. In direct antithesis we have Thomas Hardy, writing in the fullness of his fatalism "that thought is a disease of the flesh." The Vagabond will not sit in judgment...