Word: freshmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nonsectarian in faculty and student body. The founders* took over the 100-acre campus of defunct Middlesex University, hired 50-year-old Historian Sachar, former national director of the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundations, as president, and opened Brandeis' doors with 107 freshmen...
...Brandeis' 247 freshmen and sophomores (the school will not graduate a class until 1952), there are broad basic courses labeled social science, natural science, and humanities, as well as a growing menu of electives, e.g., oral communication, Hebrew, a survey of style and structure in music. To teach his courses, President Sachar has assembled a faculty of 30 this year (up from 14 in 1948), including such lights as Novelist-Critic Ludwig Lewisohn and column-writing Political Scientist Max Lerner. Says Sachar: "We want to make certain of having some star in each area. I tell students...
Peanut vendors and ticket-hawking gamins are unhappy, and so are the freshmen who'll be going to Saturday classes for the first time in their lives...
...semester grades, compiled on the basis of hour exams and work during the first seven weeks of the school year, will be available to freshmen in University Hall 9 today, Registrar Sargent Kennedy '28 announced last night...
...Freshmen will be able to deconvert by moving into rooms in Wigglesworth vacated by upperclassmen who move into the Houses and outside dormitories in February. Forty-eight upperclassmen living in the G, H, and I entries of Wigglesworth will be evicted to make room for the Freshman deconversion...