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...School for Social Research (TIME, Oct. 4). One problem : many veterans have already had some higher education but, unless special plans are made for them, will be unable to go on to a degree. The New School announced one kind of help: a senior college in which veterans, with underclass credits, can get A.B.s through evening courses...
Running their next league victor the Varsity swimmers joined the exodus of the hockey and boxing teams of Princeton this weekend. Encourage by their 55 to 20 victory over Dartmouth in the last meet the swimmers will attempt to keep their underclass status. Among the Crimson proposer who will be out to duplicate the feat of capturing eight out of nine first places will be Art Johnson, who broke the pool record in the 200-yard breaststroke, Charlie Hutter in the 50-yard freestyle, Elisha Greenhood in the diving, Captain Colony in the 100-yard free style, Frank Coleman...
Departmental work in upperclass years is almost tutor-proof, and even underclass courses seem to grow less amenable to "cold-doping," which is the greatest and most lucrative sin of the big-money instructors. Legitimate forms of tutoring seem to become more popular, and the tutors, sometimes to their own confessed astonishment, seem to become educators. Undoubtedly there is still too much tutoring of the sort which merely postpones for a few months the time when student and university must part company, but the day has passed when a young man can casually sign up for routine tutoring in course...
TIME erred in implying that Princeton's rule against posting failures was directed against the Hun tutoring school, still maintains that Hun covers far more underclass than upperclass courses...
Nevertheless, until some endowment makes Dean Hanford's proposal feasible, good instruction can be encouraged in other ways. Most effective would be a policy of recognizing reaching ability as well as scholarly attainment in the promotion of a certain number of men. Most underclass courses need stimulating instructors rather than profound scholars. Certainly writing and research would not suffer too severely by the release of those teachers who can do their greatest work in the training of young men. Cornell Daily...