History and Lit. to Give Dinners To Cement Faculty-Student Ties

To alleviate a weakness in its tutorial system, the Department of History and Literature has instituted a series of dinners providing increased student contact with tutors and senior faculty members in the field, William R. Taylor, Chairman of the Board of Tutors, has announced.

Senior faculty members who comprise the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature tutor relatively few students. Frequently, therefore, a concentrator meets the ranking members in his field for the first time at his oral examinations.

The dinners will bring together all tutors in a given area of study with about 15 students and a member of the Committee. The Department will give several dinners for students in the two most popular of the 11 fields, America and England, in order to preserve the informality of a small gathering.

Sponsored jointly by Harvard and Radcliffe, these will be the first coeducational concentrators' dinners. They are to be held once or twice a month throughout the year in the private dining halls of the Houses.

Speakers at each dinner will be senior faculty members. Plans are still tentative regarding many of the speakers, and depend upon faculty acceptances. Taylor suggested that Morton G. White, professor of Philosophy, would probably be a guest at the dinner for concentrators in the American field.