Word: yardful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both Martin and Hanson, however, like 84 other advisers, do not live in the Yard. They may see their advisees in their offices or in the Union, but they have little acquaintance with the freshman after...
...answers to these questions today would probably number as many as the 104 members of the Board of Freshman Advisers. Even though each of these men-from first year law students to full professors, from deans to masters in the Houses, from residents in the Yard to inhabitants of Belmont--would have his own notion of what an adviser should, or should not, do, the basic purpose of advising remains what President Eliot in 1889 first established a committee of 14 freshman advisers...
Beyond this, however, Dean Leighton will not go. with a long involvement with the advising system--he was dean of freshmen in 1931-32 when seniors moved out of the Yard and freshmen moved in-Leighton is "skeptical of all formulations of what an adviser should do, for no one is really qualified to advise freshmen...
...most significant developments in the advising system has been the installation of 20 proctor, advisers, who live in the Yard and who advise about 20 students each. There had been some proctors who were also advisers ever since the freshmen moved into the Yard, but F. Skiddy von Stade '38, dean of freshmen since 1953, raised the number to 20 last year in an experiment that seems to have worked extremely well...
...students themselves, is the lack of the use of the Union dining hall by many advisers. Proctor-advisers, of course, receive 600 meals free at the Union, and they are usually much in evidence. But the teaching fellows, those in part-time Corporation appointments who live neither in the Yard nor in the Houses, receive for each advisee, $22 and only three free meals per term. and those on full-time appointments--members of the Administration, professors, or House tutors, receive no compensation beyond six meals on the Union per year per advisee. Many freshmen seem to feel that...