Word: freshman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dean Leighton's long-awaited revision of the Freshman advising system was revealed yesterday with his proposals to the Board of Freshman Advisers. The dean's plans have already been approved for 1938-39 by President Conant and Dean Birkhoff...
Recognizing the "great complexity of making adjustments in the teaching load," the dean announces that part-time instructors in the Freshman courses, who are not Tutors, will receive direct payments for advising. Resident Advisers (the three Head Proctors and those other Proctors who also are Freshman course instructors) will receive allowances for all meals taken in the Union, instead of two per day as under the present system...
With Dean Leighton's 1938 memorandum, Freshman advising in Harvard has at last been recognized as an integral part of its teaching. Praise for this latest reform should be divided between P.B.H., President Conant, Dean Leighton, and other officials, all of whom contributed to its enactment. No more will the service, which eighty-four tutors, instructors, and proctors were supposed to render, be gratuitous; no longer can charges of incompetence be based on lack of time. Now the head and tail of a worm that would spoil any theoretical apple have been destroyed. By no means, however, is the problem...
Other committees announced by President-Elect Edmond LaB. Cherbonnier '39 are: Freshman Handbook, J. Warren Palm '40; Senior Advisory, C. Tiffany Richardson, Jr. '39, Roger Pierce, Jr. '39, Edward H. Schoyer '39, Elisworth S. Grant '39, and Langdon B. Gilkey '40; Dental School, Seth Craig, Jr. 3Dn; Medical School, Walter I. Tucker 3M; Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Stanley C. Salmen...
Tryouts for the Freshman squad will be held tomorrow afternoon between 2:00 and 5:00 o'clock...