Word: freshman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case of rooming, over 98 per cent of the freshman class remain with their original roommates for the entire year, and a large majority continue living together during the sophomore year. Of course some rooming situations will not work out; under the tension of adjusting to college life many minor problems and personality differences can become major anxieties. If the problem seems serious enough, the student usually goes to his proctor or advisor, discusses the problem, and switches his room after registering the change with the Dean's Office...
...inevitable that most freshmen will worry about academic competition, but they soon learn the truth. "It's almost impossible to flunk out of Harvard." many freshman proctors declare each year. One half of one per cent succeeds in doing the impossible and leaves, though most return and graduate. "The fierce competition of high school doesn't exist here," said a freshman advisor in a private conversation recently. One freshman put it another way. "I could figure out what activities would make me both admired and popular in high school, and I had the ability to succeed in those activities...
WITH ONLY three or four hours of classes a day, the freshman is loaded with free time after his hectic first few weeks. While some students do study virtually all the time, others jump into fulltime jobs at the Locb Drama Center, radicalize American society with SDS (Students for a Democratic Society), or row innumerable strokes up and down the Charles for the freshman crew team. The Dean's Office views over involvement with a single activity as a great freshman problem. One sophomore, after completing a very non-academic freshman year, said last year. I got so involved with...
Liquor, drugs, and sex are by far the most exciting problems the freshman faces, although usually not the most serious. The Dean's Office itself points out that University interference in the individual's private life is considered a serious violation of the unofficial "Bill of Student Rights...
...there is one thing that freshmen can get easily it is advice; the Dean's Office believes that there is no excuse for those who complain that Harvard is large and impersonal. Freshmen have proctors who live closeby, advisers who are equally available, the Freshman Dean's Office which is inhabited by a group of understanding secretaries and counselors, and the Bureau of Study Counsel near the Yard. There is also the University Health Services Psychiatric Section, which is frequented at some point by one-fourth of the students; it has become a counseling service for all personal problems...