TUTORIAL QUOTAS ARE EXPLAINED BY HANFORD

Explaining the purposes of the table of tutorial quotas for new students in the Houses, Dean Hanford issued the following statement last night.

"It should be made clear that the purpose of including in the table printed on Wednesday the special fields represented in the various Houses was not to encourage early specialization on the part of students, but rather to give a more complete picture of the tutorial situation in each House.

"It was felt that the publication of such data would increase the available information on which the Freshmen could express a choice of a House based on intellectual interests.

"A student does not begin specialization within a field of concentration in his first year; this ordinarily does not come until his Senior year. Tutorial work in the Sophomore and Junior year is devoted largely to work in the Department as a whole.

"It should be borne in mind that the figures published in the table on Wednesday are for the new men who can potentially be tutored in each House and not 'the total number of tutees' in each field who can be tutored by members of the House staff as was stated in the heading and footnote of the printed table. The figures are only approximate because of readjustments which will be made between now and next September.

"Also, it is well to explain that in some cases, the number of new students who can potentially be assigned to tutors in a House may exceed the number of members of the Class of 1938 who can be accommodated in the House."

There have been a few revisions in the figures published as follows: Adams House: History; should be 24 instead of 47. Lowell House: English; should be 25 instead of Engineering Sciences which has no tutors. Winthrop House: History and Literature, 10; Psychology, 2; Romance Languages, 5-10; Physics, 5; No Mathematics or Music.