Word: advisor
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Other sources of information officially open to the Freshman who plunges into these troubled waters, are the University pamphlet and his Advisor. If after all these sources of fact have been thoroughly plumbed, he finds that he has mastered the intricacies of this educational process, he may safely assume an attitude of nonchalance toward whatever courses the college may offer...
...London hotel room last week was Dr. Bailey Willis, 72-year-old geologist-emeritus of Stanford University, attache of the Carnegie Institution, scientific advisor to states and governments.* He had just returned from a 7000-mile trip through Africa. He had walked 500 miles of the way, nicking rocks, sampling gravels, speculating on the waters of the great-lake and big-game country, inspecting all "rift valleys'' to form his own theory as to whether there is a great continental split running from Abyssinia to the Jordan, and if so whether it was formed by tension (sinking...
...Biographer. J. Lewis May was born in London (1873) and lives there, but his family still consider themselves natives of Devonshire. After a number of years in France he became literary advisor and reader for Publishers John Lane and Elkin Mathews; was made general editor of Lane's English edition of the works of Anatole France, of whom he wrote a biography. Lane knew agnostic Author France and admired him, but not nearly so much as he does Newman. He married young, has one son, one daughter. His literary tastes are conservative; he also likes detective stories, loafing, smoking...