Word: firstyear
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Hughes was able to sum up his other two teammates' overall impression of college hockey from a freshman point of view in three words: "They're bigger, stronger, and faster out there." However, the steady, often dramatic performances of these firstyear men has made it extremely difficult to see where high school hockey ends and college hockey begins. They have all blended in so well. One can only have happy dreams about next season...
Last November, 140 of 162 firstyear students in the combined Dental School-Medical School class we steeled for a fight to return the first two and a half years, or preclinical training, to pass/fail grading. A few months earlier the faculty had voted to add two more ranks to a five-year old experiment at pass/fail grading. So the marking system the students were fighting was a four-point (excellent-pass-marginal-fail) system...
Eugene Welljamsdorf'73, a firstyear Med student, said two weeks ago that the drop in the boards owed partly to the advent of pass/fail grading, but he added that the faculty's despair over the test scores is not valid...