Word: martines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Both Martin and Hanson, however, like 84 other advisers, do not live in the Yard. They may see their advisees in their offices or in the Union, but they have little acquaintance with the freshman after...
...Martin traces his own distrust for an adviser with too much advice to the growth of guidance counseling in secondary schools. "There is no reason that an 18-year old should not be able to make his own decisions, but his secondary school background may have had such a vast counseling machinery for easing his way that he has failed to assume his proper responsibilities." Because Martin feels that the contrived intimacy of the guidance counselor is largely an illusion, he feels the advising system, at least in theory, should be kept to the primary, limited purpose of helping...
...another adviser, Harlan P. Hanson '46, Director of Advanced Standing, would probably answer more questions, especially non-academic ones, than Martin. Hanson does admit that each student will require something different from his adviser, and that sometimes, it is wiser just to leave advisees to themselves. As one of his former students told him: "You're one of the best advisers I could have had--you left me alone...
Hanson's view of his role may be somewhat broader than Martin's, but both are considerably above the mere study-card level. They are both easily available to students; both know the University well enough to guide a troubled advisee to the proper person or department; and both are wary of definite formulations of what an adviser should...
...resident advisers, who have most of their 400 advisees either in their own entry-way or at least in the same building, have a unique chance to develop the informal relationships that neither Martin nor Hanson can easily achieve. The topics that come up in easy dormitory relations--where to buy an overcoat, how to select courses, where to entertain a date, how to solve academic difficulties or how to find a purpose in a college education--can run the gamut, depending entirely on which way the student steers the course. And, as one adviser said, "I've never given...