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...exact definition of an adviser is 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...
Edward M. Rowe '27 will select 12 of the contestants tonight, and these men will compete later for the six team positions, the losers becoming alternates. The Jefferson Coolidge fund provides a prize of $100 for the winner of tonight's tryout. Although the prize has been split three ways in previous years, the whole sum can be awarded...
...noon March 19, at the select Paris restaurant Lapérouse, the Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George, dynamic Liberal elder statesman and great British friend of France, arrived carrying two large military maps. He lunched and conferred, it came out last week, with this curious assortment of Right and Centre French politicians : Georges Bonnet, until recently Finance Minister and before that Ambassador at Washington; Paul Reynaud, also a former Finance Minister and frequently mentioned as a future Rightist Premier; Georges Mandel, the famed "Tiger Cub" disciple of the late Georges ("Tiger") Clemenceau; and Jean Ybarnegaray, a lieutenant of Fascist Colonel...
...these columns that the majority of the applicants would seek to take courses in economics, government or related subjects. The news from Cambridge is that this prediction was justified. Of the 312 journalists, from forty-four states, who have expressed a desire to study at Harvard, ninety-eight select economics, ninety-six government and forty-three history. English comes next with thirty-six. We can remember--it was only a few years ago--when it seemed that every young man in journalism wanted to be a critic of the drama. But only three out of the list of applicants...
...month after the end of Spring vacation. On April 16 the annual University Handicap Meet gives the Varsity and Freshmen a competition opener. On April 30 the second New England Relays will be held, followed by the Dartmouth Meet at Hanover a week later. On May 21 a select group goes to Princeton for the Heptagonals, and the I.C.A.A.A.A. in New York winds up the season on June...