• DOI:10.2307/367795
• Corpus ID: 144759290

The War with the Tutors: Student-Faculty Conflict at Harvard and Yale, 1745–1771

@article{Moore1977TheWW,
  title={The War with the Tutors: Student-Faculty Conflict at Harvard and Yale, 1745–1771},
  author={Kathryn McDaniel Moore},
  journal={History of Education Quarterly},
  year={1977},
  volume={18},
  pages={115 - 127}
}

• K. Moore
• Published 22 January 1978
• Education
• History of Education Quarterly

Most historical descriptions of the relationship between tutors and students in early American higher education have tended to emphasize elements of consensus and community. Historians such as Morison and Smith have suggested that the relationship was basically close and cordial, characterized by shared values and fostered by the small, homogeneous nature of the institution. While not discounting the basic validity of this description, current research has begun to examine what one scholar has characterized as the “rising curve of collective student disorder.” By focusing on conflict as opposed to consensus new insights are provided about collegiate institutions, their modes of reaction to and acceptance of change, and a truer picture of their effectiveness as agents of society emerges. Moreover, by this approach students themselves must be taken seriously as more than passive recipients but rather as a force in their own right of institutional and even societal change.