Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assignments, are beneficial because they call attention to the need of a better system of House admissions; they are, however, unhealthy in that this is a campaign not prompted by any altruistic desire to better conditions in general, but an expression of resentment on the part of a small group who feel that several of their personal acquaintance have been unjustly excluded...
Proposing that all men on the Dean's list will be guaranteed admission 'though not necessarily to their House of first choice," the petition goes on to suggest that all men in Group Four who are engaged in at least three specified "important" extra-curricular activities, also be assured a place in one of the Houses...
Among the other important suggestions included in the protest are that National Scholarship men, Union waiters, and men working their way through school be given preference over those otherwise on an equal qualification basis with them, that applications be accompanied by a confidential financial report blank, and that group applications be considered on a "a comparative, collective basis...
...their intellectual wings. Let the farcical Bliss Prizes be abolished and the money be given for the best Freshman essays on some phase of American civilization. This year's successful tie-up with English A can be extended to other Freshman courses, and will undoubtedly draw a large group of Yardlings...
...position of the Master is not an enviable one. He must interview a large group of men in a very short time, and make a selection, based not on a simple criterion such as scholastic standing, which, as the editorial admits, would be unfair, but rather on a large number of factors, such as interest in outside activities, friends in the House, accessibility to a desired tutor, and the number of rooms available in the applicant's price range...