Word: freshmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Special Concentrations Department rarely accepts freshmen, in part because many Yardlings have not had time to sample the departments. In addition, Charney says that securing a tenured professor as one's adviser is preferable for a special concentrator in order to "guarantee that they're going to be here." And "most freshmen don't have access to professors like that," she says...
Leslie T. Chang '91 is one of the handful of freshmen who have already ventured into the office this year to ask about a possible program. After meeting with Thorne, Change now says she will wait and further investigate the departmental offerings. "I guess I'll shop a little more," she says...
After talking with several members of the Quad elite, I have come up with a hypothesis about our critics (Quadlings not included). Freshmen, whose meals are currently dominated by conversations about the housing lottery, should especially take note of this. This could be your home away from Harvard, so prepare yourselves...
Thirty-seven students participated in a pool tournament at the Union Game Room Saturday, in one of a series of social programs designed to draw freshmen together...
...questions that deserve serious attention. But it is the last question--the role of the Faculty--which we found to be of special concern. The 'degree of senior faculty detachment from these matters is troubling. Faculty members themselves expressed significant concerns about the quality of advising students receive, particularly freshmen. Some suggested that they and their peers could play a more beneficial role. Students made the same point. We were somewhat surprised by the range of persons, whose undoubted talents lie in other fields, who advise freshmen...