Word: freshman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...considered the Freshman Year in yesterday's meeting, probably for the first time this year. Discussion centered on the problem of making that period more stimulating to students, but no policy decisions were made...
Prior to the meeting, two CEP members showed conflicting attitudes towards proposals that tutorials or seminars be given in the Freshman year. Walter J. Bate '39, professor of English, viewed the proposals with skepticism. Citing the "gigantic cost" of House tutorials, he called the suggested Freshman innovations "largely academic." The present work overload on the staffs of popular departments such as English, he claimed, would also make extension of tutorial to Freshmen very difficult...
...large part of his three year tour at Harvard to a re-examination of ROTC, especially as it operates in the strictly volunteer Ivy League units. He has recommended to higher authorities an experiment, designed to reduce the amount of on-campus work by eliminating the fall term of freshman ROTC. The time, he says, could be devoted fruitfully to recruiting, thus preventing the hasty and usually negative decisions of bewildered freshmen...
Though the chances for official Army approval of this new plan are almost nil, improvements are still evident. Army ROTC has two civilian courses now. The Air Force unit this year adopted a radical innovation, completely doing away with all freshman Air Science courses. Even the isolated Navy is instituting a group psychology course for next year's sophomores. With ROTC now confronted by threatened obsolescence, the beginnings of a sensible re-evaluation of its basic foundations are both welcome and necessary...
...Freshman nine picked up its second win behind Al Yarbro yesterday, edging by a strong Holy Cross team, 4 to 3, in a game marred by wildness. Though Yarbro improved as the game wore on, the Crimson victory was preserved primarily by the excellent defensive work in the infield...