Word: freshman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anonymous donor stipulated that the entire amount of the gift be spent on awards to freshmen and sophomores in the Classes of '63 and '64. Consequently, $15,000 to $20,000 will be spent on the incoming freshman class next fall, and an equal amount on both the freshman and sophomore classes the following year...
...that the total princpal is to be spent within two years and in that it provides for possible preparatory work before entering college. Dean Monro stated that these conditions were established by the donor and do not represent a growing trend on the part of the Committee on Freshman Scholarships...
...other hand, New College will not set its students adrift without teaching them how to navigate. There will be systematic steps toward greater independence, starting with the carefully guided freshman seminars, progressing to Lecture-Student Seminars, and ending with the senior seminar, a preparation for the senior thesis...
Broad knowledge will not be pre-digested for New College students; it will come as a natural consequence of exploration, of "getting around" in their subjects. Methods are best introduced, not in the abstract, but in action. The fall freshman seminar will teach methodology by exploring limited subjects, each teacher deciding on a subject and its limits with a view to best showing a group of about thirteen students how he works, and how they can work, in using his discipline...
...freshman team will oppose the Princeton freshmen in a college, rather than scholastic, program Saturday afternoon...