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...credit tutees in groups under inferior tutors, (2) that it had used the tutorial system, in or out of Honors, as a device for imparting factual Information and preparing students for generals, and (3) that as a result it had filled to exploit the educational possibilities either of the Gill program or of tutorials in general. The decision to restrict credit tutorial (against which the editorial was only incidentally directed) continues to lack what the CRIMSON feels to be the sole possible defense--the English Department's inability to provide an adequate teaching staff...
...departments that must occasionally concern themselves with undergraduates it has shown itself to be the least capable of expoiting the extraordinary educational possibilities of the tutorial system. More specifically because of especially cumbersome internal machinery, it has been unable to administer with much effectiveness the "Gill program" that was designed to open junior tutorial to any qualified student irrespective of whether he was a candidate for Honors...
...true enough that the Gill plan does not require departments to provide tutorial for credit; the choice between credit and non-credit programs is left to the departments. At the same time, the spirit of the legislation is perfectly clear. "The presumption," reads an explanatory note offered by the Committee on Educational Policy, "remains that in most departments a student would take tutorial for credit in his Junior year...
...England of a Chairman who expects to resume his post next fall has left the Department in limbo. Yet the announcement restricting tutorial, while it is not a central issue, has fallen on this community with unusual force. Perhaps it can help to persuade the Faculty that the Gill program and the tutorial system itself can be absurdly ineffective if departments are unwilling to live by the spirit of their intent...
Hiss: Brendan Gill of the New Yorker says: "The girl wants the young man to marry her, so she can start having a family... Philippe de Broca stops at nothing in the way of gags and tricks to make us laugh...