Word: counselling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cambridge's only officially-sponsored and operated tutoring school is run from a fifth-floor office in Holyoke House, holds classes in the isolated University Museum at the unspeakable hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., and teaches College students how to read. The Bureau of Study Counsel, however, also gives tips in writing examination papers and direct tutoring in Harvard courses. It has been called by one student "the best thing for learning since...
From a small office on the top floor of Holyoke House, the Bureau of Study Counsel--with Administrative sanction and aid--virtually controls the tutoring business here. Nearly 1,300 students, 25 percent of the College, seek some sort of academic aid from the Bureau each year. Some 600 men use the "Remedial Reading Class," designed to increase efficiency in reading; three or four hundred use the counseling service, which helps the student solve problems in studying techniques; another three or four hundred use the tutoring service...
...Administration prohibited men from selling lecture and reading notes which were to be employed by schools, and prohibited any students from using commercial tutoring without permission. Violation of either rule-meant expulsion. To provide a substitute for the cram parlors, the University created the Bureau of Study Counsel in September of that year...
...statesman's final counsel drew the most applause: "If I may say this, members of Congress, be careful above all things . . . not to let go of the atomic weapon until you are sure and more than sure that other means of preserving peace are in your hands...
Stevenson's public service began in the pioneering days of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. In 1933, he went to Washington as special counsel under George N. Peek, administrator of the new Agricultural Adjustment Act. At the end of 1935, he returned to Chicago to practice...