Word: advisor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are many features in the present advisorial regime which thwart its efficacy and limit the scope of its beneficial activity. Chosen indiscriminately from the Faculty, changed at frequent intervals, receiving no extra remuneration or alleviation of University duties for their advisorial work, the majority of the advisors have neither the qualifications nor the interest which are essential if there is to be effective guidance. Not only are too many Freshmen assigned to the same man, but there is no attempt to assign the newcomers interested in some particular subject to an advisor who is connected with that field...
...understand their point of view. If possible, they should be instructors who have recently graduated from Harvard, and who are well acquainted with University courses, language requirements, conditions of probation, and the general curriculum of the College. Not more than ten men should be assigned to each advisor. Furthermore, they should be adequately paid for their time, either through an increase in salary proportional to the number of their Freshmen or through a reduction in the quantity of courses and tutees assigned to them. Often under the existing regime, a Freshman interested in languages is assigned to a lecturer...
President Roosevelt himself has appointed a Commission of Inquiry to lay plans for a New Deal in public-service personnel. Its research director is Dr. Luther H. Gulick of Columbia, an advisor of the Institute...
Primary among the Freshman acquaintances to be made today is that of the adviser who is ostensibly to serve as a guide and father confessor for his charge throughout the difficult first year. The advisor was placed in the Freshman limelight in an effort to aid the new comer to Harvard through the most troubles stage of his college career. Halcyon as the first hopes were for the success of the advisory system when it was first tried, recent years have proven that something is indeed lacking in this scheme of helping the bewildered. The adviser has not been...
...rugby, the ponderousness of American football as played and presented today reminds me of a weight)' clash between the Boards of Directors of General Motors and U. S. Steel. There they think deeply of mighty matters of sales impact, where the next onslaught should be directed. Their legal advisor-coaches sum up the opportunities and dangers, decide to put the vice-president-in-charge-of-forward-passes on the Board for some critical moments. One of the Directors feels faint from having been at it for too long. He is ordered to take a brief rest so that...