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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the Council's proposal for a virtually Iron-clad guarantee of admission to Juniors and Seniors was turned down, the Housemasters approved the general Principe of admitting a large number of upperclassmen...
...commenting on this decision yesterday, Dean Hanford said, "The number of upperclassmen is being increased so as to provide for a larger proportion of the resident Juniors and Seniors in good standing, who have applied regularly for the Houses during the last two years...
...plan is designed to accomplish two purposes: to reduce the number of men who go through all or most of their college life outside the House system; and to increase the total number of undergraduates receiving the benefits of the Houses...
...Romance Languages have proved to be stampede departments. Of course, there are many rational explanations; their prestige and quality vary from time to time, and changing conditions in the world at large are necessarily reflected in the college curriculum. More important, however, is the fact that a large number of floaters, men with no particular interests, decide to follow the crowd and concentrate in whatever department seems most popular at the time. That the current popularity of Economics is largely a fad has been the contention of President Conant for several years, and in view of the history of concentration...
...broader survey courses, to provide those men capable of choosing their best field the information which they need. Broad knowledge of little depth is eminently desirable for most men at the Freshman level, for with certain exceptions, only those Sophomores who have acquired a bowing acquaintance with a large number of fields can be expected to choose wisely a subject for intensive study. Some fluctuation in department popularity is inevitable, but there need not be in the future recurring stampedes of the sort experienced in the past...