Word: placements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theory of the Freshman Advisory System is infinitely better than the fact. Designed to beget a "proper placement in courses and a friendly interest and readiness on the part of the Advisor to talk over the various decisions", its practice has brought much disappointment to first-year men. Coming from distant states and new to university life they rightly expect some mature, personal guidance. That they do not get this assistance is indicated by the cynical disrespect which most upperclassmen hold for the system, a feeling epitomized in the classic farewell of advisor to advice--"Drop in again any time...
...style is closely related to that of the sculpture in the Cathedral at Burgos, a key monument of Spanish art. Archeologically, coming from a dated sarcophagus, it is of importance in adding another placement date to the Cathedral...
Social incompatibility is the explanation of this unfortunate situation. For its first two years the House Plan functioned perfectly as no attempt was made to regulate the placement of men against their wishes. When some of the Houses became "social deserts", as Time expressed it, however, their masters, in cooperation with the College authorities, arranged for a central cross Section Committee to regulate room assignments. The aims of this committee, as its name implies, have been to make each house representative of the college as a whole, and thereby to establish a standard of social equality among the houses...
Dean Leighton in his latest report has moderately stated the ideal of the Freshmen Adviser system: "For most Freshmen proper placement in courses and a friendly interest and readiness on the part of the Adviser to talk over with them the various decisions that must be made are probably all that is needed." The only consistent thing about the institution is that it has failed to accomplish this...
...Intoxicated by an undefeated football season and Princeton's most crushing defeat of Yale in the history of the 62-year-old series, a swarm of Princeton rooters prematurely tore down both goal posts long before the game was over, almost made way with the ball after a placement kick, were roundly booed from the Yale stands...