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Ticket manager Frank Lunden ruefully admitted yesterday that "there will be plenty of complaints-we had to give the underclassmen some pretty undesirable seats." More than 6,000 tickets were sold to undergraduates...
Yale's intensified honors majors are now taken by a quarter of each class; another group takes divisional majors, which cut across departmental lines into such fields as politics and economics. The Directed Studies program provides exceptional underclassmen with a fixed, integrated two-year curriculum taught by some of Yale's leading scholars. At another extreme, a dozen seniors are selected Scholars of the House-freed from all classroom obligations in order to complete one major project...
...Blues. Asked how Yale's 3,910 underclassmen would view girls at the gates, one senior replied crisply: "I think they would be ecstatic." Yale girls will have to be formidable students. Last week's report also urged tighter admission standards to make Yale more than ever a place where the best brains prepare for graduate training and professional-particularly academic-careers. Said the report: "Candidates whose records show exceptionally high promise of continuing intellectual achievement should be sought out and admitted without regard for any other criteria save those indicative of emotional maturity and good character...
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...