Word: counselloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Designated the first Counsellor for Veterans, in November 1944, was Payson S. Wild, associate professor Government. His staff consisted of one assistant counsellor and two secretaries. By December his office, which had moved to Weld Hall where more space was avaliable, was receiving 100 letters daily, from veterans...
...appointment of the Counsellor for Veterans, to consult in detail with service men interested in entering the University and the guide them after admission...
According to an information pamphlet issued by the Counsellor, "Requirements for admission have been made more elastic, not to relax standards, but to clear away unnecessary red tape which might work against men who have been fighting instead of studying." The object of this action, said the bulletin, is the University determination to keep education in Cambridge open to qualified men on the most flexible basis possible and to provide--to all veterans who apply disinterested and purposeful advice...
Acting on the anxious demands of many undergraduate veterans, the Counsellor for Veterans Office petitioned Provost Buck last Friday regarding the University Hall policy on the book purchases of ex-soldiers. Currently on his desk, it awaits final action when he returns...
Helen McCloskey, secretary in charge of book refunds to Wilbur J. Bender '27. The Counsellor for Veterans, stated last week that no unfairness was intended in the original regulations. "In fact," she said, "it was for the protection of the government...