Word: advisor
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Working with a tutor or advisor, the student could, according to Elder, expand his intellectual horizons as rapidly as he was capable of doing. This would be true not only in his own field but in other interests as well, Elder added. Presumably this type of freedom would lead to a much closer approximation of the "liberally" educated man than is now graduated from Harvard...
...academic matters, the difficulties are immediately apparent. In GSAS, a student is assigned an advisor through his department. Most department heads have tended to treat the foreign student just like any other student, on the theory that he will thus be better integrated into the community rather than made to stand out as "different." But the foreign student soon gets into difficulty just because he is different. The usual advisorial system, which makes the student take the initiative in discussing problems with his advisor, is bound to fail. In a poll taken last year, several foreign graduate students claimed they...
...coaxing harmony from the zvon was shifted to the Music Department, and more recently to various residents of the House. Howard M. Brown, teaching fellow in Music and resident tutor at Lowell, assumed this Herculean task last year until a nucleus of interested students relieved him. Brown is faculty advisor to the new bell-ringing society...
...despite constant pressure on the University to hire a coach for the generally impecunious debate team, little assistance has thus far been forthcoming. Ernest R. May, instructor in History, has served this year as unpaid advisor, acting as liason with the Administration and occasionally accompanying a team on a tour. Otherwise, all preparation is up to the individual debator. While the Council can afford to pay for gasoline or busfare, the debators themselves are usually forced to bear the other expenses of touring...
Even after a year at ETS and two at Cambridge, Mr. Kellogg was not sure that he wanted to enter the ministry. He had always been deeply interested in people, however, and when he returned from Cambridge to find an opening as a religious advisor to students, he felt he had found his vocational home. This week he will have been at 24 Farewell Place for twenty years...