Word: classman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...studies or flunks. One examination would be sufficient to disclose the knowledge of a college course too, but the stimulus of frequent examinations is felt by all perhaps erroneously to be necessary in order not to place too much responsibility for doing his work on the under classman. It is probably, in the main, sound sense because the underclassman usually over estimates his own ability to absorb information in a lump at the eleventh hour...
...justification of this slipshod connection between error and its correction is an avowedly personal one. The secrecy is designed to protect instructors from unpopularity among students whom they report. On its face, this apprehensive anonymity is unscholarly and harmful. For, each upper classman, not a transfer student, has passed or anticipated English A. He knows the elements of composition. Yet in cases of deficiency, in default of specific allegation, he must make a more or less general review of rhetorical principles To confront him with his actual written errors and thus to remind him also of the specific conditions under...
Three men usually form the team which goes out each week-end. When ever possible a graduate, an undergraduate upper classman, and a Freshman are sent out together in order that the townspeople may have a view of different types of college men. Four or five meetings at which one of the members of the team speaks form the schedule of the average week-end trip. The subjects on which the men talk are entirely optional, but athletics, college life, and Christian living are the topics most often discussed...
...college legislation we have drafted uniform rules for all undergraduates, with the result that upper classmen have been rather too much restricted and Freshmen not enough restricted. By the end of the Freshman year, we unquestionably must get the Freshman ready for the responsibilities of an upper classman, which, especially since the introduction of the General Examination, are probably greater at Harvard than at most colleges; but the earlier part of the Freshman year--especially the first quarter of it must attach itself educationally to the end of the school course, or we shall have no considerable diminution...
...system of "Crew Advisors" to aid men in their studies. There is no thought of tutorial work in this system, since it is designed primarily to offer advice which will help the men to devote their time to the best advantage. Each Freshman is assigned to some upper-classman who rows, and is free to call upon him at any time...