Word: advisors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University has also extended the leave of absence of Professor Francis B. Sayre L'12 of the Law School for another year to allow him to remain in Siam where he is serving in Bangkok as advisor in international relations to the king of Siam...
...college should require a Freshman to see his Senior Advisor the second evening after the opening of the collegiate year in the Fall, and once a week thereafter until Mid-years. Furthermore, not more than four Freshmen should be assigned to a Senior and preferably only three, as this is a sufficient number for the thoughtful attention of a Senior Adviser...
...first place, few would consider restricting the Freshman with more rules than already surround him and to force him to see his Senior Advisor would simply be formulating another rule. It would also be a pernicious rule, destroying that invaluable contact between the first and the fourth year classes which it was intended to promote. Pressure to produce the contact might gently be applied upon the Senior, but when put upon the Freshman it raises the Senior to the innocuous position of a faculty advisor...
...Freshmen on the other hand, have not in all cases shown great willingness to cooperate or to obtain the possible benefits of more mature advice. And the advisor, somewhat reluctant, reticent, a bit diffident, perhaps, has been too easily repelled by the slightest lack of interest on the part of the advisee. As a result, the great expectations of the system cannot be said to have been realized. If the blame must be placed, it undoubtedly rests with the advisors...
...obvious that the advisor must be the keystone of the whole structure. If he is timid and diffident, his advisers are certainly more so; if after two or three years of college he still lacks the confidence to invade a Freshman's rooms and make himself at home, he cannot expect such assurance on the part of the advisee. And if he has no great faith in his own advice, he may be sure that no one else has. But in any case, whether he gives good advice or bad upon his energy, his willingness to get up and grapple...