Word: freshman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Skip Stahley is now running this Freshman basketball squad of 25 men through a stiff practice six times a week. Although he would make no promises about the prospects for the season, Coach Stahley, pleased with the fact that there are several large men on the squad, would admit that material this year was better than last...
...past years the Freshman Committee of Phillips Brooks House distributed 36 baskets, each containing a Thanksgiving dinner, to needy families of Cambridge yesterday...
...time of the inception of the Freshman Tutorial System, official Harvard defined its functions restrictively, ignoring one extremely important aspect. It was envisioned solely as a means of guiding freshmen of above-average ability, who had already chosen tentative fields of concentration, in advanced work for which they might find the time. Thus, Dean's List men for whom the freshman year largely repeated their prep school work would not be "leveled down" by standardization, but would be given an opportunity to express their bent earlier in their college careers...
This view disregards what could be another--and perhaps more--valuable function of freshman tutorial: namely to aid in helping the student to choose his final field of concentration. In spite of the broad outlook afforded by survey courses, and in spite of the availability of advanced courses to selected freshmen, the choice is often made haphazardly. The possibilities of a miss are too great, necessitating subsequent readjustments and consequent failure to capitalize fully on the benefits of the tutorial system. A solution lies in the use of freshman tutorial as a means of helping students to distinguish their aptitudes...
...which now exist for upper-classmen. Instead of division into narrowly specialized fields such as physics, all the experimental sciences could possibly be placed under a single heading; or history, government, and economics might feasibly be grouped together. By the aid of numerous excursions into these broader realms, the freshman would be able to choose more intelligently his place of permanent abode...