Word: freshman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...study of the Freshman Year may well be one of the next large-scale projects of the Committee on Educational Policy. CEP members have shown an increased interest in this problem for several weeks, although formal consideration is still pending...
Dean Monro agreed essentially with Ford concerning the need for changes in the Freshman Year. Yesterday Monro enlarged on a speech he made April 10, in which he suggested the possibility of tutorials or seminars in the first year of college...
Accustomed to simply learning what the teacher says, the Freshman often does not accept intellectual responsibility in college, Monro said. The Dean claimed that large lecture courses are deceiving, in this respect, since they give the student the impression that he need do no more than digest the material in lectures or required reading...
...many students, Monro stated, are taught in high school or prep school that there is one answer to every question. "If we attack this tendency and others in the Freshman year, however, we might put the student on the right track and save ourselves a lot of trouble later...
Coach Adolph Samborski has a versatile and well-balanced squad with which to work in Freshman baseball this spring. Although there are no standouts that "carry" a team, the Yardling nine shapes up as very effective in the field, at the plate, and in the pitching department...