Word: upperclasses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Princeton University, "Dick" Cleveland figured as campus critic, as reformer. Ardent Wilson Democrat, he followed in his hero's footsteps by attacking the upperclass-men's club system. He associated himself with the so-called "great unwashed" (the socially unassimilated element of the student body) and refused the many club invitations that were addressed to him by virtue of his personality, attainments and appearance, which was quite the reverse of "unwashed," he being a tall blond shot-putter cast in a noble mold. After the failure of his "revolution" he contented himself with a running public commentary on life...
Questionnaires were sent to 300 colleges and only 148 replied. The rule among the 148 is a single, comprehensive, upperclass course covering the whole field from the Mathers to Mencken, for which six hours of study-credit are given for the year. This type of course is boiled down in 25 institutions? including Michigan, Illinois, Nebraska, Northwestern, Wisconsin, Colorado, Occidental and Yale?to two hours a week and then usually amplified by offering advanced courses. Ohio, Grinnell, Hamilton, Amherst, Florida, Kalamazoo, Mount Holyoke, Carleton and 16 others content themselves with semester or quarter-year outline courses...
...still Princeton persists in carefully doling out by the term the number of cuts to upperclassmen who do not maintain a first or second group ranking. At the same time the University nurtures the upperclass plan of independent study and blinds its eye to the contradiction and paradoxical practice...
Aided by the freedom which is here given them from faculty taskmasters and upperclass persecutors, the Freshmen at Harvard have been able, as the Freshmen at few other colleges are, to realize the true values at Harvard and to appreciate the opportunities which are opening before them...
...meeting for all upperclass and Freshmen coxswains will be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock in Newell boathouse. Coach Stevens will speak on the coxswain's relation to rowing and C. S. Heard '25, coxswain of the University crew, will detail their actual work...