Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bureau aim was to help students get along under their own power and not provide the academic crutch that had characterized the tutoring establishments. This philosophy was the basis to the recent change from Bureau of Supervisors to Bureau of Study Counsel. Actual help in specific courses was to be reserved for men whose faulty method of work or poor back ground had retarded them or for students who had missed classes because of illness...
...welter of systems that proclaim the true road to scholastic success, Perry has developed his own method of teaching study skills that result in durable learning and defining just what they are. In his "counsel" sessions Perry emphasizes to students that the principal objective is to think and not to rely on books or notes to do their thinking for them...
Special course instruction is handled by over 200 supervisors drawn from the graduate schools and the ranks of retired teachers. Briefing sessions enable these supervisors to carry out to some extent the general Bureau of Study Counsel technique in their specialized instruction. Fee for this service is $2.50 an hour with scaled rates for men who can't afford the regular sum. General counsel, however, is offered at no cost...
Probably the most spectacular results obtained by the study counsel bureau occur in its reading classes. Last term they included more than 200 men, most of whom achieved a 70 per cent increase in speed. Before the class began students read an average of 250 words per minute and were able to answer correctly 6 1-2 out of 10 comprehension questions. At the conclusion of the 18 hour course they averaged 400 to 450 words per minute with a comprehension score of 7 1-2 to 8 questions...
Donald Richberg, co-author of recent labor legislation bills, and Jesse Freldin, former general counsel to the National War Labor Board, will be the speakers in an analysis of current legislative proposals to promote industrial peace. Lon L. Fuller, professor of Law, will moderate the discussion...