Word: upperclass
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This five-day intellectual orgy breaks abruptly on Friday night when the college begins a two-day weekend. Girls are imported for the festivities. they usually spend the night at the upperclass eating clubs, at the Princeton inn, or with local families...
...most outstanding of these problems is a new Princeton undergraduate. No longer does he represent the eastern, upperclass graduates of private preparatory schools, but a broad, heterogeneous group drawn from the entire nation. Princeton's problem is fitting; this new type of student into a traditional club system in a small, closely-knit undergraduate community, whose most distinctive feature is its self-contained insularity...
...college these men find they are somewhat restricted to the campus. They notice that the upperclass years in the clubs are socially better than freshman and sophomore years. And they see that this social difference has been partially carried over into the curriculum, where they spend two rather directionless years building a broad educational base for upperclass concentration...
...moment, the faculty is soled on the upperclass curriculum. It consists of beginning concentration in the Junior year. This is different from Harvard, where concentration begins a year earlier. As a junior a candidate for the A.B. degree must write at least one 7-10,000 word paper in his major. This comes in addition to a senior these is which is required from every man in order to graduate. At Princeton the faculty does not distinguish between honors and non-honors candidates...
...effects of recording upperclass attendance are not limited to mere nuisance; the practice is also a waste of money for monitoring and extra bookkeeping charges. This expensive nuisance could be avoided by separating freshmen into special sections of the lecture halls for attendance purposes. Although such a practice might sound like the "beanie" approach at other colleges, the very presence of a rollcall already indicates to the freshman his special status...