Word: advisors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...engages to travel in this new academic world, no doubt he has been warned a score of times or more of the danger of transition and is thoroughly saturated with precautionary messages. Taking for granted therefore that such preparation has been adequate, (if it hasn't please consult your advisor, proctor or Freshman Dean) it will be more to the point to dwell on other aspects...
...considerable number of them, when a report tells of the Freshman's difficulties in the first weeks of college, of his ambitions, disappointments, and mistakes caused by ignorance of his surroundings. When those who set in judgment decide the fate of one of these members of 1931, the Advisor's report may settle the problem one way or the other. It is because of these cases--comparatively few, actually fairly numerous--that the Student Advisors' exist in that capacity. The inception of Freshman week, one of the achievements of Dean Greenough's administration, has given the Advisor's added reason...
Next fall, the reports of the Student Advisors, instead of going to the CRIMSON and being blazoned forth--anonymously--to a gossiping and inquisitive world, will be at the beck and call of the Deans of the Class of 1931. A Freshman will fail to pass two of his November hour examinations, and from the recesses of University Hall will fly a message: "Bring us the advisor's report on Mr. Blank!" The Student Advisory Committee will go through its files, discover the desired report, and dispatch it posthaste to University 4. And presumably the Deans will peruse carefully...
...advisors' work will start on September 22, when the Freshmen have to register. A considerable number of advisor's are expected to return to Cambridge on that day. The assignment of advisees will probably be made earlier next year than usual, so that advisors who return on the twenty-second will already know the names and addresses of their advisees...
...advisor's reports on all Freshmen, which were written for the first time last October, will again be a feature of the system. Next fall, however, the reports will be more important than in the past, for when a Freshman's standing is questionable, the Freshman Dean will call for the Advisor's report and use it to aid him in deciding the case. The reports will be used only by the Student Advisory Committee and the Deans, and will not be published...