Word: freshman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through the Dean's office there is constant contact with the hundreds of schools that annually send men here for their Freshman year. This winter Dean Gummere is visiting some of these schools in the South and Middle West, interviewing prospective candidates. While a student is here, the Records office sends back reports on his progress. In this way Harvard standards are carried to the schools, influence those schools...
Among the many types of term-time jobs, the largest number of individual placements, 738, went to typists, with chore workers, 241, second. These two groups together earned $4,878, while the largest earnings $30,492, went to 239 waiters including 60 in the Freshman Dining Hall. The new positions as House Athletic Secretaries, created last year, provided 25 upperclassmen with earnings of $4,350. Among its unusual placements the Office supplied the hero and villain for a pictorialized serial in a local tabloid, a man with good eyesight to inspect the life buoys which hang from various bridges...
...Boston saved the record in his second overtime with a bare decision over the opponent's heavyweight in the day's closest match. Bill Daughaday's win in the 165 pound class stood out in the Varsity bout, especially as it was his second fall in two weeks. Outstanding Freshman match was Dick Thomas's in the 145 pound class, with a fall in under two minutes...
There was the 150 backstroke, too, which Bosworth entered with the odds in favor of Brown's Wilcox. But last year's Freshman captain proved himself a fine competitor as he outswam Wilcox to take first place. In the 200 breastroke, Jack Waldron, rated No. 2 Harvard swimmer in that event, dug his way past Max Kraus to finish third, but the pluckiest race of the evening was swum by Frannie Powers against George Gibbons of Brown...
While the Faculty Council at Harvard was announcing that the study of English grammar and composition will be made much more intensive as a requirement for freshman classes, Teachers College at Columbia burst into print yesterday with a story to the effect that a course in the "Technique of Fresh Water Angling" is to be added to the curriculum of that institution--which already has courses in poultry raising, baseball and piano tuning...