Word: lowerclassmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...from awards given in the Middle Ages for the reading of theses or discourses. At present, however, a number of Harvard graduates get honors degrees without writing theses, through the program of Cum Laude in General Studies. While CLGS is often used to allow people with low marks as lowerclassmen to write theses, it also allows people with high marks to avoid this particular intellectual exercise. Given the original nature of honors, it seems a distortion to give them to people who do not write theses in fields in which they are at all practicable...
...very physical set-up the colleges makes this ideal difficult except in the perceptional meeting or the new Campus center. For upperclassmen eat by themselves in their clubs and live in dormitories without faculty. And the lowerclassmen eat by themselves and also live in dormitories without faculty...