Word: freshmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Student monitors are considered by the College as officials of the University, and are under strict obligation to attend all meetings of courses for which they have been appointed takers of attendance. The list of courses in which reports are made include almost all courses regularly open to Freshmen...
...courses and beginning concentration in the Freshman year was granted in 1934. The word gradually got around to Freshman advisers with results that this year amount to a crisis. The regimentation that previously compelled Yardlings to take several courses they cared nothing about has been swept away. Instead ambitious Freshmen come out of the hills and waste no time in getting to grips with the subject of their choice. Courses in French literature or musical appreciation have no appeal for young men bent on becoming engineers or economists and not realizing that many courses in their field are better saved...
Various minor changes in the organization of courses might remedy this condition in part. One of the more obvious would be to waive course prerequisites in cases where Freshmen had received advanced work in school, for it cannot be denied that much time is wasted in elementary courses for the sake of complying with the red tape of University Hall. Another solution might be to introduce the type of course so popular in some other colleges, which would go under the name of Civilization 1 and rain culture on the just and the unjust...
Games will be scheduled for the coming fall with one or two encounters each day in football. On these days Freshmen may receive credit for exercise. Depending on the number of leagues formed, each team will play ones or twice a week...
Saturday was also a poor day, with only $750 coming into the coffers. Late Freshmen and an extra high percent of upperclassmen coming in sent Monday's money over the $1750 mark but still was not enough to equal...