Word: freshman
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...healthy improvement in the lower level General Education program. Such a seminar could consist of a class group of about a dozen, much like an honors Gen Ed A section at present. Offered under the ae*gis of the General Education Committee, such seminars would offer the qualified freshman or sophomore alternatives to the lower level Gen Ed requirement...
...combination of reinvigorated sections and new seminar-type offerings for students meeting lower level Gen Ed requirements could restore much of the intellectual excitement which the program should offer the freshman. Such changes should be instituted not with the intention of manufacturing freshman scholars, but with the goal of producing genuine thinking instead of the receptive absorption which is too often the fruit of General Education...
However, the Tiger freshman boat will provide a rough race for Coach Bill Leavitt's eight. Averaging 6 ft. 2 in. and 185 lbs. the Tiger cubs beat a good Navy crew by almost two lengths a fortnight ago and then went on to beat Pennsylvania and Columbia last Saturday. The Crimson boat, which won an easy race from Syracuse in its only contest to date, is not small either, and should handle itself well under the pressure of a close race...
...third varsity and third freshman boats will also race in the regatta. Beaten by Dartmouth by about three seconds over a Henley course at Hanover last Saturday the varsity boat is looking for revenge in this encounter...
...recent flurry of suggestions on freshman year and reports that the Administration plans to make some changes in the freshman program next fall is highly encouraging. While the faculty has recast honors tutorial it has so far done little about improving freshman education and non-honors tutorial. The innovations forecast for at least the former will indeed be welcome...