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Freeman has a quartermaster's command of the immense body of historical material he works with. His researcher's notes on white, blue, pink and yellow slips are arranged to correspond to the biographical plan he has carefully outlined in his notebooks. By the use of an ingenious system of numbers and symbols he can turn to any scrap of material he needs in a matter of seconds. After he has written a chapter, he "lets it cool" for a month and then his revisions always "cut the first draft to pieces." After the fourth typing he sticks...
...York World's Fair, in 1939. He visited the Finnish Pavilion on his days off, met and liked the Finns who worked there. A bachelor, he joined a Finnish club in Manhattan, went to dinners and dances there. When the fair ended, he began to correspond with his Finnish friends who had returned home. Said he: "The Finns are very straightforward and honest and dependable. They agree with me and I agree with them...
...Effective convert-making requires systematic action," writes Jesuit Father John E. Odou, in explaining the organization called Convert Makers of America, of which he is director. Founded in 1944 to enlist the Catholic laity in proselytizing for their faith, the C.M.O.A. requires of its members that they correspond once a week with a priest-adviser on the problems and progress of their convert-making. "Trains, hotels, depots, beauty parlors are all crowded with potential converts," writes Father Odou. "That is why the slogan used by every C.M.O.A. is: 'Never let an opportunity slip...
Thus Pollster Gallup's problem is: 1) to work out the proportions of the barrel, i.e., determine the true social, political and economic complexion of the U.S. people; 2) choose his handful (people to be interviewed) accordingly; 3) make sure that the two correspond exactly...
That advising does not correspond to this rosy design is woefully apparent to the student who has received little more than a grunt and a signature from his academic guardian. But even more apparent is the fact that advising cannot be abandoned. The majority of undergraduates needs the stimulation and guidance which good advisors can, and in a few cases do, give. Granting the difficulty various departments face in finding men capable enough to carry out an ideal program, insufficient attention has been given to the appointment and reappointment of advisors. The departments are obligated to their students...