Word: advisor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much on wholesale distribution of information: followed to its logical conclusion, such a system of lectures would supplant the old system which, with all its faults, has that very desirable personal element, student contact with the faculty. This would be a loss. The real trouble with the faculty advisor system is that the advisors are so over-worked that they have but little time to inform themselves or their advisees concerning courses or fields of concentration. With some ten or fifteen men in line to be advised the man "in the presence" does not feel at liberty to say very...
...inference is that Yale has found the faculty advisor system Inadequate if not useless, an evaluation of its merits as true at Harvard as at Yale. The advisors frequently either know less than the advisee about the problems of the curriculum or are quite as modest as he in advancing their ideas. Sometimes, too, the advisor turns dictator, forcing the student to take a course blindly, "for his own good". But in each case the effect is the same: having "ended" his troubles by putting down certain marks on a card, the undergraduate either wonders for the ensuing three years...
...clock. On these cards are to be indicated the whole courses and half courses running through the year that are now being taken, and also any half courses which are to be taken during the second half year. If any new courses are added, the consent of the advisor must be obtained...
...other main speakers,--M. Maurice Gasenave, Economic Advisor to the French Delegation at the Washington Arms Conference, Signor Guiseppe Gentile, Economic Advisor to the Italian Delegation, and Dr. John Mez, Washington correspondent for the Frankforter Zeitung--addressed the audience in the order named...
Robert Wormser '22 of the University will preside and arrangements have been completed as a result of which the following speakers will address the meeting: M. Maurice Casenave, Economic Advisor to the French Delegation at the Washington Arms Conference; Signor Guiseppe Gentile, Economic Advisor to the Italian Delegation at the Washington Arms Conference; and Dr. John Mez, Washington Correspondent to the Frankforter Zeitung...