Phillips Brooks House Will Again Sponsor Undergraduate Tutoring of School Pupils

For the fourth year, Phillips Brooks House will again sponsor an undergraduate faculty program, in which Harvard students will teach subjects they are studying to more than 100 high school students or recent graduates.

The tutoring is given during the evenings in the undergraduates' dormitory rooms, where "tutor" and "tutee" meet once or twice a week. Applications for the work are now being received by the Undergraduate Faculty at the Phillips Brooks House.

The high school students participating in the program are chosen on a basis of scholastic are chosen on a basis of scholastic grades, intellectual curiosity, and the recommendations of their principals. Boston boys receiving instruction have the privilege of borrowing books from the P.B.H. Library, and other privileges at the University's museums and libraries.

Last year 84 Boston boys were tutored, and the year before, 50. A similar program of an undergraduate faculty has been adopted, with variations, at many other American colleges, including the University of California at Los Angeles, Lehigh, and Radcliffe.

The main object of the program is to assist high school students who are unable to foot the cost of college but who wish to keep up with their studies in college subjects or prepare for college work.

William T. Munson '42, chairman of the directing committee, said that of the group who were given instruction by students last year, 14 desired to go to college, and five have enrolled in various New England colleges this year.

10 Scholarships Awarded

In addition to tutoring, the Undergraduate Faculty supervises the award of about ten scholarships to high school graduates wishing to take the regular University Extension courses offered evenings by members of the faculties of Harvard and several other Greater Boston colleges and universities. These are known as the Abraham Michaelman Scholarships.

The most popular subjects offered by the faculty are English literature and composition, French, and history. 18 students from foreign countries were taught English last year under the direction of Munson, and a similar program may be continued again this year.