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Later this week there will be several Guides on the larger upper-class courses. The Crimson, however, is making no attempt to cover this ground thoroughly, since sources of information, unavailable to the man entering Harvard, are open to Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors...
With freshman enrollments everywhere increased over last year's, and upper-class enrollments slightly decreased (because men with two or three years of learning could better yield place), some college openings were noteworthy as follows...
...propose that when the present competition for selecting Assistant managing editors of the CRIMSON is completed, those men, from whose ranks the next President and managing Editor will be chosen, be constituted a standing Committee to consider ways and means of correcting the current system of interpreting the three upper-class years to the Freshman Class. I recommend, also, that two members of the Editorial Board be chosen to collaborate with this committee, in order that the editorial policy toward these matters, which is of necessity separate from the strictly reportorial functions, shall nevertheless be kept informed...
...mitigate the heretical resolution that upper-class elections are doomed, the Freshman elections, will be allowed to continue. At present the entire control of Freshman affairs is placed in the hands of the Freshman union Committee appointed from each dormitory at the beginning of the year, thereby eliminating all necessity for any officers whether nominal or active. The fact that the Freshman Class may be more of a "unit" than the others is no argument for electing three men whose only service will be to provide their pictures for ornamenting a frontispiece in the Red Book...
...Dean of the Faculty Luther Pfahler Eisenhart, a quiet, smiling little mathematician, baseball addict, Princeton teacher for 32 years, whose memory is so prodigious that he needs no filing cabinets in his office. Dean Eisenhart's monument is Princeton's famed four-course plan, instituted in 1924, by which upper-class students choose two major courses and two minor ones and write a full-size thesis. Scholastically, Princeton is at its peak, the Depression perhaps having had something to do with making the students take brain-training seriously...