Word: student
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second place, vocational guidance should never decide for the student but should merely stimulate him to decide for himself. It should suggest possibilities, give information, point out difficulties, stimulate personal investigation and decision, but never dictate. This seems obvious; but it is important that the man giving advice should do it as an understanding friend rather than as a technical expert performing an autopsy...
...same token, all such guidance should be voluntary and not compulsory on the student. Compulsory interviews would always be conducted under an 'obvious psychological handicap. Moreover, relatively few students are interested in vocational advice until the senior year. The experience of the Dartmouth office and Mr. Daly's office indicates this. Hence the compulsory guidance of underclassmen would be in the nature of an imposition, as well as superfluous. Vocational guidance, in short, should make its own way on its own merits...
...Student Council budget system which Hoyt will direct next year, was inaugurated in the fall of 1926 and has proved so successful in the past three years that it has become a fixed institution. The system is intended to facilitate the collection of funds for the various drives which occur during the year, and it is the duty of the Student Council Budget Committee to regulate the distribution of these funds...
...capacity of chairman of the Student Council Committee on Freshman Affairs, Batchelder will have complete supervision over all the activities of the Class of 1933 until the officers of the Class are elected early in the spring. Under his guidance and with the cooperation of the Freshman proctors, a 1933 executive committee will be established for the temporary management of Freshman affairs, while dormitory committees will be appointed to facilitate the fall activities of the various groups...
With the conclusion of eleventh hour student worries the Phillips Brooks House Association will open its annual drive for old text books, beginning next Monday. Under the direction of W. M. Dunn '30, representatives of each entry in the college dormitories will collect all the books that would otherwise become white elephants among the miscellaneous items that serve to burden the book shelves at the time of moving...