Tutorial Plan Makes Houses All-Important

Choice of a House will hold more significance for the Class of 1955 than for any other group of Harvard men since the war. With the newly-announced plan centering tutorial and advising in the Houses, freshman this year will have to consider their educational tastes as an all important reason.

On this and the next pages is presented the CRIMSON's annual guide to the Houses in which staff members point out the disadvantages as well as the strong points of each of the Houses. Vital statistics about a House can be found at the top of the each article.

for their choice of a living place during the next three years.

Next year all sophomores in the five big departments--Economics, Government, History, English, and Social Relations--will have to take group tutorial once every two weeks and will have to take it with tutors and tutees from their own House. For the first time, furthermore, grades will be given for tutorial on a basis of "honor," "pass", or "fail."

The plan puts tutorial back on the basis it held in the free-spending pre war years when the College had plenty of money to concentrate on individual attention, and all those who wanted tutorial could have it.

House tutorial staffs, however, will next year groan under the weight of the avalanche of sophomores and juniors required to take tutorial. Already hard pressed for teaching time, some tutors may try to water down assignments to cope with their extra tutees.

The Houses will retain their special characteristics under the new plan and may develop new ones. As John H. Finley '25, Master of Eliot says, "under the new plan the Houses will be able to come into their own intellectually."