Tutorial System to Be Adopted by Physics Department This Fall

By vote of the Faculty of the Department of Physics, students concentrating in that field will, starting this fall, work under the Tutorial System, with its attendant general examinations, it was announced yesterday. The change will go into effect in September.

Further action of the Department will decide whom the change will affect. Sophomores concentrating in Physics will work under the Tutorial System next year, the change being extended to include Juniors the year following, and at some time in the future. It is not yet decide whom the change will affect, be optional with Juniors and Seniors next year.

The adoption of the Tutorial System has been contemplated by the Department of Physics for several years. This is the second field to make the change this term, the Division of Geology having voted to put the change into immediate effect last month. The Division of Bio-Chemistry and Biology adopted the system last spring.

This action by the Department of Physics following the present trend will entail regular meetings with a tutor, at which assigned reading will be discussed. Individual reading is to be assigned to each man, the intention being to interrelate his studies in the various sub-divisions of Physics with work which the separate courses do not deal with.

Seniors Allowed More Freedom

More freedom in laboratory work will be allowed when the System is applied to Seniors. Each man, in the advanced courses, will have a chance to choose the experiments he will perform, under the guidance of his tutor.

The adoption does not mean that any great change will take place in the work covered by this Department, but it will affect only the mechanism of the field, serving to bind the whole together and give an opportunity for more individual work and personal contact with the instructors. Besides the men now in the Department who will act as tutors, two new men will be appointed.

The Department of Physics will held open house on Tuesday, April 17. All men who are planning to concentrate in this field and any other s who are interested will meet in Jefferson. Physical Laboratory at 3 o'clock, to be shown the subjects now being covered by the experiments and researches of advanced students in Physics. The laboratory facilities open to men concentrating in this field will be explained.