Word: classmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second contemplates the abolishment of mid-year examinations. It is purposed to rest grades during the year on judgments more co-incident with the actual work performed in courses. The third and last reform is identical with that most recently instituted in Harvard and Yale, namely, permission for upper-classmen seeking distinction to reduce the burden of courses...
...competition for the Business Board of the CRIMSON not only gives experience in business work and methods, but also, more than any other business competition, it offers an opportunity for bringing candidates into contact with upper classmen, as well as business men in and near Boston...
...Harvard is so large, it is not a unit at all. . . . The committee is convinced that the ultimate solution is to divide the upper classmen transversely into permanent groups for purposes of residence; or, in other words to subdivide Harvard College into colleges...
There is an ancient but tenacious theory that Harvard is indifferent. Freshmen have been its chief exponents when they have not been received with due regard to their self-importance. Upper-classmen have usually, and with justice sneered at this charge or have accepted it as another distinguishing trait. That they have treated it with such levity has probably been due to superficial consideration and not to any profound Machiavellian conceit. Hence it is with pleasure that they welcome the Student Council's latest offspring, the Committee on Relations With Schools...
...Johns Hopkins trustees recommend the transference of the transitional phase of education which they are relinquishing to the junior colleges. These institutions pick up the loose ends of preparatory training and link them with the first two college years. But deprived of the maturer influence of upper classmen, the youthful student is hardly as well off at the junior college as in the freshman or sophomore class of the ordinary college or university. The opportunities for browsing around libraries, the possibilities of contact with an inspiring lecturer or tutor are much more numerous at the higher institutions. The elimination from...