Word: advisor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main object in the selection was to get a diversified group--"bubbling and plodding thinkers, outgoing people and quiet students who would make friends." Besides the 21 students, the Rev. Ronald C. Maitland will accompany Project as an advisor...
Social relations, for example, does not use teaching fellows for junior tutorial, and some members of the board of tutors are unaware that this is unusual; the department tries to keep the tutorial load on its members down to one thesis per advisor, while a department like History may make a fifth of instructional time cover five theses or three to four junior tutees. The department is bottom-heavy, with an excess of junior members, and it would be difficult to increase the instructional staff...
Hauser's plans are set back when Aelia refuses to seduce his thesis advisor. Her explanation: "'But Cas, darling,' she purred, appraising her luxuriant body in the curved mirror she had installed to surround her bed, 'I thought you knew. I mean, I wouldn't sleep with... with...a m-a-n.' She oozed the word through tightly clenched teeth, as if to bite the life out of it." Needless to say, Aelia seduces the professor's wife and Cas seduces the professor, and before long Cas has tenure...
...working on their own, their ideas of how this should be accomplished vary. The History Department, for example, feels that most students require fairly close contact with a faculty member, and attempts to give them special second tutorials, while students of English are not required to have a faculty advisor at all. The Faculty legislation establishing the program limit it to Juniors and Seniors who are Honors candidates, but Group III students have a hard time in some departments. On other points--whether independent study can be counted for concentration; whether it can be taken outside one's field; whether...
Edmund N. Bacon, professional advisor to the memorial commission, said that the design would blend into nature and become part of the Washington, D.C. Tidal Basin without dominating it. The rejected designs, Bacon stated, were formalistic and geometric, while the eight soaring tablets "directly transmit the words and thoughts" of the late President...