Word: tutoring
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Franklin L. Ford, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Lowell House, will take a leave of absence until June 1, Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, announced yesterday. Ford has been appointed chairman of a CEP subcommittee which will review College admissions policy...
...Masters are also enthusiastic about tutor-student dinners, and these should be preserved, if only for those students who know nothing so exciting as facing their tutors across a white table-cloth and wineglass. If the undergraduate is to float through the House system in a sea of second-class sherry, he might at least have intellectual company...
...addition, concentrators' dinners and informal tutor-student discussions will round out the program. Bullitt points out that the affiliation "is not intended to exclude other members of the Harvard-Radcliffe community from participation...
...pages or more for each 2 hour fortnightly session, but one has also to write 6,000 words in essays. At least one of these essays is on reading in addition to the regular assignments and is, in addition, 2000 words long. To top things off, at least one tutor is assigning a student to lead the discussions in each session this semester. Each student will theoretically conduct one two hour session. This entals extra work for the tutee thus assigned, and is, on the part of the tutor buck-passing. The tutor is paid to lead the sessions; therefore...
...general, the Ford money provides the frosting on the sponge cake, and the Masters can spread it as they will. Experimentation will continue, but so far, the tutor-student dinners and House "visitations" are the core of the program...