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Last year Harvard announced a ten year academic calendar which the University hoped would encourage other colleges to do likewise. New Yale has set itself apart from the rest of the league, and reports from Princeton say that Nassau may do likewise...
...Nassau Hall hopes its importance will carry beyond merely providing social focus for freshmen and sophomores. "We hope it will provide a better educational environment for all our hope it will provide a better educational environment for all our undergraduates," Dean of the College Francis R. B. Godolphin explains. "We hope the new center will help fuzz the social line between sophomores and juniors. We want our professors and students to consider it a convenient place to hold their precepts...
These 17 club, located as they are, outside the campus proper, have a unique relationship with Nassau Hall. Over the last thirty years the University has relied on them to feed its upperclassmen. But since they are privately owned and run by their own board of trustees, the university treats them with kid gloves...
While these appeals went on, Princeton's campus heard four months of name-calling, read protest letters in the Daily Princetonian, and generally misunderstood the issues. Those who know the 37-year-old Heath claimed that Nassau Hall fired him because of his criticism against faculty-student relations. Others less emotionally involved with the man believe he had completed his work and felt like moving on. Whatever the reason, however, it is fact that Heath was not appointed to an assistant professorship, and according to Princeton regulations, had to leave...
...most positive action which came out of the controversy was the creation of a now Office of the Dean of Students. By June the trustees had become sufficiently worked up over the case to feel Nassau Hall needed some minor adjustments. By taking the social responsibility out of the hands of the Dean of the College and giving it to a special man, they felt they would end future misunderstandings between the administration and its charges...