Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Student Advisory Committee has decided not to continue this year the experiment tried for the first time last spring of furnishing advice to Freshmen on fields of concentration, it was learned yesterday from A.R. Sweezy '29, chairman of the committee...
...discontinuing last year's innovation of holding office hours to advise Freshmen on the choice of a field of concentration the Student Advisory Committee abandons a little used activity. The committee is able to make its real service to the first year men at the opening of College in the fall. Then the friendly counsel of an older student proves valuable both in academic and general matters of undergraduate life...
Loss of the student committee leaves the Freshmen with numerous sources of sound advice on the subject of a field of concentration. Besides the services of their faculty advisors and the department heads, the men may still consult their student advisors informally. In addition, Freshmen will receive a pamphlet of reprints from articles appearing in the CRIMSON which discusses the departments of concentration and provides the electing student a comprehensive view of the fields from which he must make his choice. Further assistance seems not only unnecessary, but a tempting prop to the occasional man who would make his decision...
...theses in their special field. With both of these falling due within a period of approximately two weeks the Senior inevitably turns from his larger work to fulfill the course requirement in the easiest and most rapid manner possible. This can hardly be of any great value to the student doing such work, or to the professor demanding...
...texts, presentable trade editions could be supplemented, so that although these courses might not be able to cover such a diversified field, they would not leave so much of an unfavorable impression on the minds of those who have read them. The instructors could supply the notes and the student would acquire an idea of what the literature of that particular nation is like. Since it is required for many to enter these courses it would be well to offer them an opportunity to acquire some literary knowledge if merely due to constant exposure...