Word: musts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Others--enough to keep Dr. Bock and the P.B.H. personnel advisers on their toes--have developed mental difficulties which with careful and thorough guidance could have been controlled, if not avoided. By now every college should know that there is no uniformity among students; each is an individual who must be taught and handled differently. At some time during college most intelligent men pass through an emotional or intellectual conflict as part of their push toward maturity; perhaps half can be aided by guidance, while the rest must care for themselves...
...guide in all academic matters. To show him how to study, to interest him in the University life, to direct him toward a field of concentration; these the advisers should be expected to do. For the emotionally maladjusted they cannot be directly responsible, but when such cases arise they must at once inform Dean Leighton, who should make use of Dr. Bock, P.B.H., and even the neglected Placement Office...
...equivocal, some idea of what constitutes one can be gained from the varied qualities demanded in his selection. The foremost qualification is interest in dealing with human beings; next come approachability, or the rare biological element of appeal, and insight into the total personality. To obtain response, an adviser must set up confidence through frankness, through fixing each man's aim and helping him to reach it. He ought also to gauge as best he can the attitude of the advisce toward his new environment. With these standards raised, there lingers the question of whom to select. Certainly not those...
Perhaps the chief obligation accompanying President Conant's nationalization of Harvard is the duty of University Hall to inform itself regarding schools and scholars in various sections of the country. This means that accurate knowledge must be secured of regional marking standards, College Board training, and teaching emphasis, in order that school achievement may be translated into Harvard grades. It means that Dr. Gummere must be given enough assistants to determine by interview the personality of every applicant without recourse to welfare agencies or university clubs...
Finally, like all human institutions, the Supreme Court must earn reverence through the test of truth, he asserted...