Word: freshman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today's varsity boat will likewise contain only three lettermen from the six that came back this year, while four of the oarsmen are sophomores from last year's undefeated freshman boat...
Heavyweight races will be on the mile and three-quarters course in the Charles River Basin, finishing just below the M.I.T. boathouse. Freshman will race at 4:45, Junior varsity at 5:15, and the varsity...
Bruner's announcement of his proposal followed the CEP's Wednesday resolution to publically open debate over "spoon-feeding" in the Freshman year. At that time the Committee had discussed, on an exploratory level, the possibility of changing the plan of the Freshman year...
...Freshmen would have an opportunity at mid-year to enter special sections in one of their large introduction courses, to be directed by an "experienced" Faculty member. In the special section, or "workshop," as Bruner calls it, students would do both accelerated course work and independent research. After Freshman year, students would continue various workshops until graduation, taking only three regular courses. These later would be independent from courses, and would "prepare the student for his senior theses...
...same time, Harvard has taken the lead in "selling" Ivy League education in the West and South. Teams from the admissions office have toured schools encouraging applications from students who might never have heard of Harvard before. In the present freshman class, there are nearly six hundred different secondary schools represented, a record number. Geographically, at least, Harvard is becoming more "national" in character. In the class of '56, 44 per cent of the students were New Englanders; in the class of '62 only 29 per cent. While New England has dropped, the Middle Atlantic States have risen slightly...