SOULE REPORTS ON NEW ADVISOR PLAN

"Thirty-five student advisory reports have been handed in to the committee up to the present time", declared W.E. Soule '27, Chairman of the Student Advisory Board yesterday. "These reports have been quite satisfactory, giving the desired information about Freshmen in a detailed and apparently accurate way.

"In the past the Student Advisor Board had as way of making certain that the members of the Committee were seeing their advisees and were helping them to become established. The individual reports have solved this problem effectually; we are able to determine now just how many Freshmen have been visited and in what degree they have been aided.

"Commuters" Not Advised

"One group of first-year men, however, we have not been able to get in touch with to any great extent. These are the "commuters", the men who do not live in the college dormitories. Either these men do not want advice or they have no spare minutes to see their advisors, for they have all been written to, many of them several times, and yet have not responded by letter or in person.

"Among the reports I have read so far, the general scholastic bug bear for Freshmen seems to be the History, I course. The advisors almost unanimously state that their proteges are nervous about the unfamiliar nature of the history work.

"Another complaint peculiar to men from western schools seems to be their difficulty in becoming acclimated. The sudden weather changes in Boston and Cambridge have been a source of astonishment and no little discomfort for the students from the great open spaces.