Word: sub-freshman
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...with incoming Freshmen. Another might well reprint the Register's description of the club system. Again, a series of articles on the organization and conduct of undergraduate activities--athletic, literary managerial, debating, dramatic, written by the present captains, managers, and presidents would prove of inestimable, value in acquainting the sub-Freshman with the nature of the world in which he is to live. Other headings suggest themselves at once...
...discussed, at some length, the Student Advisor system and suggested two possible means of improving it. The second of these was that the advisors should be appointed before College opens. In support of this mention was made of the fact that the data in the records of the sub-Freshman is ordinarily sufficient for the College Office to determine what sort of an advisor he requires. No consideration, however, was given to the difficulty of selecting advisors before their Senior year has begun...
...additional burden. But considering that the necessary data for a large percentage of the incoming class is at hand by July, it seems as if this clerical work could be done before the September rush begins. True, the Freshman Dean has had no opportunity of sizing up the Freshman. Yet there is almost sufficient data in the records of the sub-Freshman to give him an advisor who would have the same interests as his and would be sufficiently older...
...While the standard for History, in any one of its branches, is considerably higher than for Physics, the latter subject has a string attached to it in the shape of a laboratory examination which can only be taken at Cambridge. Certainly, these are exactions which must make the average sub-freshman think twice before applying for admission to Harvard...
Lampy's arraignment of the College Office has a tone of seriousness in it; and well it might. The organization in Harvard's administration building is most imperfect. Many undergraduates know this to be a fact through experience; probably the administrative force itself would hesitate before denying it. The sub-Freshman fights his way into college between opposing statements on his standing. The Senior gives up the ghost when he finds that no one can solve his concentration problem...