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Princeton University has appointed a 15 man committee, headed by its President, Harold W. Dodds, to study all phases of underclass life at Princeton...
...will also look into the effect extracurricular activities have on underclass students' academic records. During the past two years, freshmen have been allowed to take part in extra-curricular activities at all times. Previously, they were not permitted to participate until November. Fall sports were not under the old rule...
...last Hoop Race, Ester Coke, is also president of a far less familiar and newer Wellesley tradition, the Daisies. Not to be confused with Vassar's Daisy chain, this society is an organization of lethargic seniors dedicated to the purpose of being as inactive as possible. There are several underclass exceptions, who by exceptional feats, like spending over six hours a day in the Well snack bar, are accepted to the fold...
...allow women in rooms, and Brown, Cornell, and Columbia, which do not. Yale's and Princeton's rules are similar to Harvard's. Princeton allows women in rooms until 7, until 9 in the upperclass eating clubs (later when there is a chaperoned event), and until 9 in the underclass "Campus Center" which in conceded to be inadequate for proper entertainment. A recent proposal to extend room permission to 9 was defeated by the Undergraduate Council before ever being presented to the Administration...
...Some 400,000 studious U.S. fighting men may seek postwar underclass credits for correspondence and self-teaching courses of the U.S. Armed Forces Institute (TIME, Feb. 21). Typical of the Institute's daily ton of letters was that of Brooklyn-born Ensign Frank William Gardner, whose new PC boat is one of the first two U.S. warships with Negro crews. Wrote he: "They are aware . . . that the spotlight . . . shines directly on them. . . . Nearly all ... have shown excited interest [in] the Institute and the opportunities [for] correspondence courses, high-school . . . and college credit...