Word: underclassmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year is different, say some team members. The varsity has last season's great freshman team, which ended Yale's 66-meet winning streak. Yale has lost aces Tim Jecko and Roger Anderson, and several underclassmen. The Crimson wants to win badly, and all its dreams center on Payne Whitney Pool next March...
...with our tradition," he says. But, he adds, "I wish our counselling methods had worked out better. Each incoming freshman gets an academic adviser, who usually becomes his sophomore supervisor as well. The function of the adviser during the first two years is at best loosely defined, and many underclassmen rarely see the men assigned to them. When students begin to concentrate in the junior year, they receive a "major adviser," who works closely with them, planning courses and helping with other academic decisions. The job of major adviser is a difficult one, and there are not enough...
...hope of being able to hire them after graduation. Few companies, however, have offered jobs to freshmen and sophomores until this year. Yet the competition has become so intense in the search for qualified college graduates, particularly in the sciences, that many corporations are offering jobs to underclassmen to interest them in the training programs. Consequently the Summer Employment Office will this year for the first time keep a file of such industrial positions, and will also seek other summer factory jobs...
...Hall feels it must find a more practical solution. This will probably be the New Chandler Green student center which officially opened this fall. In this converted library Princeton hopes it has part of the answer to its underclass problem. Not allowed in clubs until their junior year, the underclassmen have had no place to entertain guests or cat with the faculty on the campus. This center with its restaurant, recreation room, and lounging alcoves was completed this fall for just this purpose...
...These men felt I understood their problems. They liked me. They felt that I was concerned because underclassmen didn't get to know as many faculty members as they might. To them I was Exhibit A. The students felt this was the time to fight the Administration and so they did. They weren't poor students and so they did. They were the best on the campus, and they were individualists...