Word: freshman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether or not the "public image" bears changing, it is certainly true that the role of the prospective science student needs study. Nearly half of recent freshman classes have indicated a desire to concentrate in the sciences, but a considerably smaller percentage actually does. Any number of factors might contribute to the drop-off--a sudden discovery of the liberal arts, a discouraging decline in grades, or possibly the deglamorization of the role of scientist in a freshman's mind (just as a horde of students who list "writer" as an occupational preference end up lawyers and teachers...
Instead of worrying about applicants, the scientists would do better to study their advising program, the possibility of a College math-science requirement, and the various pressures which tend to force the freshman away from concentration in the natural sciences...
...dramatic three and one-half year seminar for gifted students, beginning in the Freshman year, was yesterday proposed by Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology and member of the CEP. Students in the program would do research under a Faculty member's guidance, and receive course reduction...
...Freshman baseball team put together 10 hits for 14 runs as it rolled over the Andover nine, 14 to 4, for its third straight win here yesterday. Showing its best offensive form to date, the team belabored three opposing pitchers and scored in every inning but the sixth...
Third baseman Mike Drummey picked up two doubles, and captain and short-stop Dave Morse drove in two runs as the Crimson capitalized on seven walks and two Andover errors to produce the largest run total amassed by a Freshman team in several years...