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Saturday we discussed, at some length, the Student Advisor system and suggested two possible means of improving it. The second of these was that the advisors should be appointed before College opens. In support of this mention was made of the fact that the data in the records of the sub-Freshman is ordinarily sufficient for the College Office to determine what sort of an advisor he requires. No consideration, however, was given to the difficulty of selecting advisors before their Senior year has begun...
...first thought this may seem to be no difficulty at all; if the Committee can pick out suitable upperclassmen in the fall, one would think they can do it as easily the previous spring. But when we consider that in the spring what the academic standing of the prospective advisor the following fall will be is a matter of conjecture, we see that the problem is not so simple. For theoretically (although we hold this a matter of contention) advisors on probation are not at all to be desired...
...have said before that the Senior advisor system will never be successful as long as the College Office gives the Senior the impression that it is not particularly interested in his work as an Advisor. It is to counteract this impression that the grades of advisees have been sent out to Seniors. But to make the Senior advisor amount to anything his work must be checked up. We suggested that it would be advisor asking him to report at least once upon his advisees. It may be said that this smacks of the much feared "Paternalism." As a matter...
...hand by July, it seems as if this clerical work could be done before the September rush begins. True, the Freshman Dean has had no opportunity of sizing up the Freshman. Yet there is almost sufficient data in the records of the sub-Freshman to give him an advisor who would have the same interests as his and would be sufficiently older...
...honor of Professor Charles Moureu, Technical Advisor to the French delegation to the Conference for the Limitation of Armaments of Washington, the Chemical Colloquium will hold a special meeting in Boylston 9 at 4.45 o'clock this afternoon. Professor Mouren is President of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, a member of the French Institute and of the Academy of Medicine