ELIOT TO SUGGEST ADVISORY CHANGES

Extensive alterations in the Student Advisory system are recommended in the report now being prepared by T. H. Eliot '28, Chairman of the Student Advisory Committee. The report will be submitted to the Student Council after further conferences between the Committee chairman, Dean A. C. Hanford, and Mitchell Gratwick '22 and W. I. Nichols '26, the Freshman Deans.

The substance of the recommendations which are expected to be made by the Committee is the virtual abolition of the individual student adviser and personal calls on every Freshman.

At the same time, it is announced that the duties of the present Student Advisers have not entirely ended. Directly after midyears, the advisers of Freshmen whose status is in serious doubt will be notified and asked to visit these advisers, in order to make up to-date reports on them.

Office Hours Worked Well

Next year the number of Student Advisers, which totalled 70 this autumn, may be cut into less than half with 25 advisers reporting at Cambridge on the day that the Freshmen register, the "welcome committee" in each Freshman dormitory, holding office hours from 12 to 2 o'clock for a week, and eating in the Freshman dining halls, will function as it did this year. A large number of Freshman made use of the advisers in the Common Rooms last September, and the Committee feels that this feature of the system is worth retaining.

The personal visit, however, is felt to be of little value. It has not been defl- nitely decided to abolish this part of the system, but the Committee is anxious to receive opinions on the worth of the Student Advisers personal calls. These opinions and any suggestions concerning the Student Advisory system should be addressed to Eliot at Grays 3.

The 25 advisers who would be appointed under the suggested plan would continue in that capacity throughout the year, and might be called upon to visit Freshmen whose status was questionable as a result of the midyear examinations. The personal visit to every Freshman however, is less important than formerly because of the added functions of the proctors in the Freshman dormitories and the greater attention paid to the incoming Freshmen through the great extension of "Freshman week"