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...remaining freshman will have non-resident advisors. Part two of the reorganization invoices the conversion of dorm suites into offices for the non-resident advisers...
...intramural level, in the same way Straus Trophy winners are decided at Harvard, cumulative points are kept for each dormitory through the year. At the end of the year, the dorm with the highest number of points receives a trophy known to most 'Cliffies as "the Cup." Last year, Whitman-Eliot...
When asked why he chose Lipson's course over the University's Slavic A, one student replied, "Other graduate students in my dorm warned me not to take Slavic A. I was told you may learn to write Russian, but not to speak it." Another student said he avoided the University course because he had heard that sections spend all their time "learning to get the accents right." A physics graduate student who had taken Slavic A pronounced it "time-consuming," "medleval," and "a cook-book course...
Over the summer, a little disorganized organizing went on, applications were solicited, and David Riesman submitted a proposal that was to haunt discussions of the Freshman year: fifty members of the seminar group he was organizing would live in a single dorm (what he would do with his Cliffies never became clear) and eat their meals together, taking a core of courses together. The Advanced Standing Committee was decidedly not interested...
Reorganizing the advisor system into five dorm groups with a senior tutor in charge of each will not radically alter the freshman year. It is hard to understand what virtues are to be found in delay, not only because procrastination saps the enthusiasm that an idea can inspire, but because there really doesn't seem to be much to learn...