Word: counsels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today the cram schools are no more. They and their often-successful attempts to beat the academic system have been replaced by the Bureau of Study Counsel, which may not advertise as well but which, from a long view, is unquestionably more valuable to any student. It is the Bureau's function to help men make the sometimes-difficult adjustment to life at Harvard and, at the same time, to enable the University's faculty to do a better job of teaching...
...Dudley House upperclass advising system will begin early next week, head adviser Robert N. Harrington '56 said last night. Forty-seven upperclassmen have been chosen to counsel 127 commuting freshmen...
...whether absurd suggestions or not, they were rather varied, whereas the counsel for the faculty seemed quite united in their contention that whatever is is about the best that can be done. The expertise of Mr. Toepfer was not subject to review; and the wit of Mr. Seavey was already res judicata. With appropriate moderation by faculty counsel during the course of the discussion, judgment for the faculty seemed to be a foregone conclusion...
Perhaps the Student Committee to Investigate the Grading System did not realize the discussion would take the form of an adjudicatory proceeding. At any rate Committee counsel seemed prepared, and evidenced some signs of intimidation, though no formal charge of judicial bias was made...
...appeared to me that the Committee's case was laughed right out of court by a display which was truly a performance worthy of the most exaggerated tales of the Harvard lawyer's prowess. It is to be hoped that the tactics of faculty counsel will be recognized as what they were, and that the Committee's practitioners will profit from an initiation under laughter rather than under fire. Furthermore, the Committee need not think their case was a complete failure, for "an enjoyable time was had by all." Joe Mullins...