Word: advisor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early devotees of self-paced instruction soon discovered, they can have an inspirational value, not replicable by machines, in showing what it means to be truly in command of an important subject. Answering students questions via computer may be more efficient, but posing a routine question to an advisor is often the way by which a shy student reaches out for help in dealing with homesickness, insecurity, and other problems to which no electronic device can possible respond...
...good chance for us to pick the brains of people in national security we don't generally see on a daily basis," said Col. John R. Allen, senior military advisor to the Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. "You find that out that education is ever complete...
...were an affirmation of his position that the Social Studies Department is an some way less rigorous than the History and Government departments. The way in which he use the statement could not have been further from the way in which it was intended. After visiting my advisor at the Social Studies Department earlier in the afternoon I was simply relating to the other seniors ar the table the difference in the reception given by the two departments. What I said was. "The Social Studies Department really knows how to treat you. You hand in your thesis, and they give...
...Action Man experience, coupled with the fact that it is confined mostly to freshmen, seems to indicate that the University itself may be the activator of the Action Man. Perhaps that unnerving phone call simply a requirement, like the Quantitative Reasoning and Computer tests, just another blank for your advisor to check. To anyone demanding to know why this test should be made, I'll propose this example: Harvard's endowment for Widener Library exists partly on the condition that each student pass a swim test before he or she graduates; it is entirely possible that there is another building...
...order to qualify for official University recognition and the right to call themselves the The Harvard-Radcliffe Grocery Society, the group also intends to ask a targeted faculty member on Monday to be a faculty advisor. Klein said, though, "I cannot mention his name because he doesn't know...