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...system at Harvard, in the lack of sufficient individual attention and advice from members of the Faculty to students when it is most needed, i.e., during the Freshman year. Lack of time, lack of interest, sometimes lack of knowledge prevent Freshman advisers from performing any but a purely mechanical function. The problem is first to get advisers thoroughly acquainted with the individuality of each advisee, and second to get them to use that knowledge to guide every Freshman into the field of endeavor most suited to his interests and abilities. With over a thousand men entering in each class this...
...institution of regular conferences between Freshmen and their advisers, combined with improvement of the advisory staff itself, and with increased emphasis on the importance of the function, would make the relationship between Freshman and adviser something more than the perfunctory thing it is now. If this can be done by only lightening other burdens of advisers, or otherwise compensating them, every effort should be made to accomplish that...
...state, Professor Holcombe calls in Aristotle to tell us what is possible and desirable. Let the middle class rule! Using the Communist theorist Bukharin's classification of classes he finds that the American urban middle class in alliance with the land-owning farmers can dominate the political scene. The function of this group is to avoid extremes of class conflict and to assert community interest over class interests. Their program should consist of concessions to the other two classes, avoidance of any repressive measures, and the creation of an efficient governmental machine, which functioning well, will avoid any serious stalemates...
When queried concerning the nature of the record which Mr. Gill changed, and which has been a focusing point for attacks on him, Mr. Hurley stated that he supposed that it was an institutional record of the inmate's activities, but that he was not sure of its function. When asked whether Mr. Gill did not have a complete right to alter it at his pleasure, he said "That's entirely a matter of personal opinion. To my knowledge it is the only institutional record a man has down there. It is entirely possible that Mr. Gill may have some...
...intricate network of which he takes command was organized in 1870 as a function of the Signal Corps, transferred to the Department of Agriculture in 1891. Its first annual appropriation was $15,000. For the current fiscal year it got $3,731,235, of which about $450,000 will go for telegraph bills, most of the rest to pay some 1,000 employes. At more than 200 stations in the U. S., Canada, Alaska, the West Indies, notations are made twice daily of pressure, precipitation, wind, temperature. The results are wired in code to Washington, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco...