Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From time to time there are short reviews printed in a feature column of the CRIMSON editorial, page under the title of Bookends. For the average student whose limited time precludes a widespread reading of modern poetry and prose these reviews are of great value in the selection of worthwhile literature...
Conferences with Faculty Advisers, consultation with representatives of the Student Advisory Committee, and language examinations will consume the rest of the day. At 7:30 o'clock, an informal meeting of new students will be held in the Living Room of the Harvard Union. William J. Bingham, '16, Director of Athletics A. E. French, '29, Freshman Football Coach, and J.E. Barrett, '20, Captain of the Football Team, will speak on Athletics and Physical Education at Harvard. The moving picture reel of Athletics at Harvard will also be shown...
With the arrival of some 900 Freshmen in Cambridge today the Student Advisory Committee reaches its period of full activity. Several advisors will be in each of the Freshman dormitories for lunch and supper today and will remain in the common rooms after the meals to talk with all first year men who may want advice on any non-scholastic subject...
This leaves the Student Advisors with the sole task of orienting the Freshman with his new surroundings, and assisting him in such social difficulties as he may encounter at the beginning of the term...
...that it is a help to bewildered Freshmen in choosing their schedules is a fact so generally recognized that the CRIMSON feels thoroughly justified in practing it despite its shortcomings and injustices. The history of the guide leaves but little doubt that in the field of instruction the student is more inclined to accept the judgement of his confreres than of his elders...