Phi Beta Kappa Tutors Are Ready to Start Aiding Students in Preparation for Midyears--Major Writes on Aim of Bureau

The Phi Beta Kappa Tutoring Bureau, organized four years ago among undergraduate members of the society, is now ready to give assistance to men in college in preparation for midyear examinations.

Office hours will be held at 39 Weld Hall daily except Saturday from 5.30 to 6.00 o'clock, E.M. Hoover '28 announced it last night, Chairman of the bureau this year.

Of the nature of the work which is voluntary and without charge. G.T. Major '27, last year's chairman, says:

"Strictly speaking the assistance offered by Phi Beta Kappa men should not be called tutoring: it is rather advice. Presumably a man elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society has done work distinctly above the average grade in his courses and may be expected to have got more than the average return from them. That is probably owing in part to the fact that he has learned how to organize his work, where to put the emphasis in a given course, and how to review most effectively. If this kind of information can be passed along to students to whom it would be helpful members of the society are glad to try to do so.

"In other words, any methods or aids that we have discovered in preparing for examinations, or any help that we can give in pointing out the way to organize a mass of material or to sort the essential from the less important, are offered to those who wish to avail themselves of them. We are not competing with the tutoring schools or attempting to find a way to pass a course with a minimum of work. Indeed, experience has shown that often all a man needs is a little encouragement and a few simple suggestions at a moment when the amount of ground covered seems impossibly great.

"Freshmen and transferred students have found this assistance particularly valuable in getting adjusted to Harvard methods. Men who have lost time through sickness or other causes, and men who are having difficulty with distribution courses outside their chief field of interest may also find it helpful. Any undergraduate in the college is at liberty to consult the bureau with reference to his work, and an effort will be made to help him."

Inasmuch as there are only thirty members of Phi Beta Kappa to do this work, and they also have examinations, men who want help are urged to consult the chairman of the tutoring bureau just as soon as possible. His office hour will be held at 39 Weld Hall daily except Saturday from 5.30 to 6.00 o'clock. Notice to this effect, and of any change, will appear in the CRIMSON until the midyear period.