Word: advisors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advisers neglect their obligations; and frequently a Freshman falls to learn who has been assigned to him and is unable to find someone who by answering a few simple questions or giving some suggestions from his own experience, could clear up many difficulties. The weekly office hour of the Advisor Committee, open for consultation to all Freshman, will serve as a court of appeal to eliminate these inconveniences...
...Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays or Fridays between 5 and 6 o'clock. Each applicant will be assigned to a member of the society qualified to help him in the particular field of study with which he is having difficulty. Consultations will then he held as often as the advisor thinks desirable. If it is felt that the student needs detailed tutoring in a specific course, a professional tutor will be recommended...
...Meyer is Managing Director of the War Finance Corporation, having held this position since 1919. He figured prominently during the war first as advisor on non-ferrous metals for the War Industries Board, member of the Council of National Defence and of the National Committee on War Savings, and later in his present position. Since his graduation from Yale in 1896 he has been a well known figure in international banking circles as head of the firm of Eugene Meyer and Company from 1901 to 1917 and as a director in many important corporations...
...Faculty are hardened, perhaps, to the sight of a dreary string of "Ds" and "Es" on an advisee's report slip, and pass the matter off as just another of many "bad years"; but the younger instructors have good reason for being discouraged, and so far no Senior Advisor has been able to advance anything more constructive than bad language...
...enters in the fall, he is welcomed by another son, and then introduced to all the sons here. He is sometimes found summer positions and throughout his course is advised by sons on college matters. The organization is to each man almost a combination of faculty and senior advisor, Phillips Brooks House, and preparatory school club...