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Surely it should not require a year to mould the prospective scholar into ductile shape for upperclass work; at least, that year should involve a progress beyond his intellectual adolescence. The standards in the elemental subjects with which the prospect has chosen to arm himself to pass the Chairman of Admissions must be raised so that these subjects need not be taught to such students in College in their introductory form. None would suggest the elimination of primary courses, but they should become the canape rather than the cocktail of the freshman year...
With their upperclass colleagues in the Houses eating breakfast at 9.30, and in dining hails conveniently near, the Freshmen have some cause to complain of their present system. Their Dana Hall breakfast hour only causes inconvenience to individual students, and an 8.29 A.M. chaos in the dining hall. It is no good answer to the suggested change that it would only succeed in pushing forward this chaos to 8.45. In the Houses, students who have 9 o'clock classes have found it advisable to appear in the dining hall before 8.30. The benefit of the later hour would accrue chiefly...
Within little more than a week, the final lecture will have been delivered in most of the upperclass courses. A majority of the undergraduates, after the Christmas vacation, will begin a diligent search for lecture notes, either among their friends or among the numerous tutoring agencies which thrive just outside the gates of the Yard. It is not only those who have spent the fall in riotous living who will be engaged in this prevalent mid-year sport, but all those who have cut lectures freely and all those to whom extensive note-taking is a distraction from lectures...
...character studies, the novel does not report the rigors of Tony's adolescent schooldays. He appears to have sprung full-born into a family in which the father deified Darwinian Science while the mother deified Dante Gabriel Rossetti. In the midst of all the Edwardian amenities of an upperclass household, Tony came to the conclusion that neither his father nor mother was totally right or wrong, "but if you went to life with all your senses open, with your body as well as your mind, with your own fresh feelings instead of abstract laid-down ones, then indeed...
This decision involves a radical change in policy, since it breaks the long-established tradition of restricting the use of Newell Boat House to Upperclass crews. For years all spring and fall Freshman rowing activities have centered in Weld Boat Club and it has been customary for the Freshmen to row at Newell during the winter months, in order to make use of the indoor tank, but they have always returned to Weld in the spring...