Word: freshman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tutorials, theses, and more free time in the Freshman year might combat students' overconcern with grades and make the first year of college more profitable, Dean Monro suggested last night...
Monro then suggested that a thesis or tutorial might help stimulate students' intellectual curiosity early in college. In the question period which followed the speech, Monro also said that a "seminar program" in the Freshman year might possibly give the student more of a feeling of participation in intellectual activity than 50-minute prepared lectures...
Considering adjustment problems in the first year of college, Monro characterized the Freshman as "spinning madly with one toe on the ground." Reducing the large work load on Freshmen, he said, might give them more time to solve their own problems. He suggested that the need for free time is greater among Freshman than among upperclassmen...
...most highly touted units on the team are the attacks. Only one first string attackman, Dub Mallonnee, graduated from last year's squad and he has been replaced by Dave Bohn, an all-New England player at Exeter and the high scorer on last year's freshman team. Bohn, Captain Gerry Pyle--second to Mallonnee in scoring last season--Nick Lamont, and Andy Leaf will alternate at the three attack positions...
...Wynn's freshman crop once again looks promising, and, he says, it "could be as good" as last year's unbeaten team. Joram Piatigorsky, a high-ranked California junior, is established pretty well at number one singles, with Kal Pollen, Chris Clark, Larry Sobel and Mark Woodbury battling for the next four positions. Other contenders for singles spots are Jonathan Roosevelt, Jim Gordon, Roger Pauley and Jerry Black. The doubles teams, still undetermined, will no doubt be drawn from these nine...