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ADVISERS AND PUPILS 
ANYONE who is closely in touch with the teaching process knows how difficult
it is to give its inner quality by such external descriptions as the earlier
chapters of this Report have attempted. After all, the essential matter is
that of the personal relation between the teacher and the pupil and of the
mutual influences which pass between them. Such descriptions as have been
given might take on life if the reader could spend some time in the midst
of the process, so that the words might acquire color and immediacy' and
sharpness. Failing that, there are, however, two sets of records which have
been carefully kept which are available for an "outsider" who wishes
to understand
and to appreciate the influences of the college and the responses of the
students to them. These are, first, the papers written by the students during
the two years and, second, the estimates of his pupils which each Adviser,
at the end of every