Word: advisor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Work, no New York headquarters for the Hoover campaign. That was the Moses diminuedo. Senator Moses hastened to Washington. He was told he might be something called Director of the Service of Plan and Policy. He returned to Manhattan thinking that he was Chairman Work's practical-political advisor and virtually his peer. But last week, at a Manhattan meeting of National Committeemen from the New England and Middle Atlantic States, Senator Moses found that Dr. Work still intended to control the entire campaign from headquarters at Washington; that he and not Senator Moses would preside at Eastern advisory...
...well done. I recall that the gentleman to whom I was intrusted ushered me into his room in an impressively efficient manner, and abruptly asked me what I was interested in. Having a vague notion that I liked Shaw and Galsworthy and Shakespeare, I murmured 'English.' 'Excellent,' my advisor snapped, 'you must take English 28. Good-day.' Thus was I launched into what might have been four years of study in English literature, without first having any conception of the possibilities of other concentration...
Although advice with regard to the work of any student is narrowly limited in its beneficial possibilities, it is, none the less, a factor of some weight, especially in the Freshman year. The outstanding limitation of the present system of Faculty Advisors is their distance from the lives and needs of the average Freshman. They discharge their function of maping out study plans at the beginning of the year with admirable ability, but thereafter the relation, if any, between student and advisor is usually an artificial one. A more natural relation inevitably exists between the student and his course instructors...
...National Military Hero. He remains, however, self-confessedly no statesman. The marvel is that Poland, once given the boon of a government which is at least stable, has forged ahead so rapidly in agriculture, industry and commerce. Pertinent is a report recently issued by Financial Advisor to the Bank of Poland Charles Schuveldt Dewey, onetime (1924-27) Assistant Secretary of the U. S. Treasury...
...Advisor Dewey's keynotes...