STUDENT ADVISERS WILL MEET ON TUESDAY NIGHT

Approximately 250 letters were sent out by the Student Advisory Committee last night to those men who have been appointed to act as student advisers next year. Of this number one half was picked from what will be the Senior class and 90 and 35 from the coming Junior and Sophomore classes respectively. In addition to announcing the appointment, the letters told of the general meeting of advisers to be held at 7 o'clock next Tuesday evening in the Faculty Room of University Hall. This meeting will have two distinct aims which will be brought forward during the space of half an hour. In the first place Dean Greenough and J. D. Du Bois '24, chairman of the committee during the past year, will discuss the student advisory system, its work in the past and its its aims and plans for the future. In the second place it is hoped that some of the advisers will ask questions and bring forth criticisms about specific points which can be improved. The new committee headed by E. G. Lowry Jr. '25 will be present at the meeting and afterwards will be ready to talk over the system with any of the individual advisers who do not care to discuss their views in public.

This Year's Work Successful

When asked by a CRIMSON reporter about the work of the advisory system during the year that is coming to a close, the retiring chairman was moderately optimistic. "In the case of most of the Freshmen," he said, "I can not say that the system has been successful. In the case of many, it has not worked at all, but with the few men who have had the benefit of a conscientious adviser some real good has been the result.

"The chief trouble has been indifference on the part of the advisers, indifference arising from the fact that the contact between adviser and advisee is a bit unnatural and therefore unpleasant. The committee has tried to lessen the unpleasantness of the contact, first by assigning to Freshmen upperclassmen whom they already know, and secondly by suggesting to the advisers specific subjects upon which the Freshmen may want advice. The first of these aims was accomplished in only about one half of the total number of cases a situation partly due to the haste of the committee in assigning advisers to Freshmen admitted in September without giving them an opportunity to express a choice. The feeling of the committee was that the first few days of the college year furnished such a valuable time for the Student Advisory system to function effectively that they should not be lost, as would have been the case of the Freshmen admitted in September not given advisers until after they had had an opportunity to express a choice."