Word: martines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Advisers, of course, are limited by time, but most find the time and interest to go well beyond this narrow study-card approach. Harold C. Martin, director of General Education Ahf, for instance, sees an an important function for advisers the help they can give to students to get through the "machinery and red-tape of Harvard." "All the advising system is, in the end," says Martin, "is a substitute for the kind of explanation one would give to a stranger or a guest if he came to one's house...
...Martin feels that the relationship between adviser and advisee should be "based on an intellectual rapproachment, without any conscious striving toward a personal one." He is, in fact, highly critical of anything smacking of the paternal--although a role as a friendly uncle is at times appropriate. "A student has no right to expect his adviser to be a Father-Confessor," he says; "if he happens to find one, that is fine, as long as the adviser isn't too ready with advice. The adviser can be an amiable listener, but the student has no reason to expect...
...began as a routine murder trial. Dour Mrs. Charlotte Black, 63, a big, thin-lipped woman with square-lensed spectacles, stood accused in Santa Rosa, Calif, of pumping three bullets into the head of her husband Martin, 67. But hardly had the jury been sworn in when the case became a cause. Counsel for the defense told the court that Mrs. Black waived her right to a public trial. Judge Donald Geary promptly ordered spectators out. A lone newsman, Don Engdahl...
Full Safe. There was no doubt that the money pinch was real. Chicago's big commercial banks were slow to take on new borrowers, were only lending to prime risks. At a Pennsylvania Bankers Association meeting, FRB Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. felt called upon to defend his policy. FRB, said Martin, has "always met business's seasonal needs and will keep on doing so." And needs were being met: even at high interest rates, commercial bank loans in Manhattan alone rose $122 million for the week, nearly five times the increase for the comparable period of last...
...disagreement over policy within the Administration, President Eisenhower gave FRB and Martin his tacit support. Said Ike: "If it [the Federal Reserve] believes that money is getting too tight because of this, they will take measures to meet...