Word: upperclasses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year is on individual course work with little or no attempt at correlation and the student enters on his Sophomore career with only the vaguest understanding of the purpose and importance of the tutorial system and the function of concentration and distribution. To enable one to pass immediately into upperclass life an introduction to the tutorial system in modified form should be made during the Freshman year...
Spring crew started auspiciously yesterday when over 300 Freshman and upperclass crew candidates gathered for meetings in Lowell and Smith halls, respectively. The 1934 oarsmen met in the Smith Halls common room at 7 o'clock in the evening, where they registered, and where Captain J. W. Hallwell '31, Head-coach C. J. White-side, and Freshman coach H. H. Haines, gave a series of short talks in which they outlined the coming season, pointing out the quantity of good material which was represented at the meeting, but emphasizing the fact that what a man had done at school...
...upperclass registrants reported to their coaches yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock in Lowell House commons. Captain Hallowell began the meeting by a short address in which he stressed the necessity for a successful season, saying that this depended entirely upon the spirit displayed and on the cooperation given the coaches. White side followed by a talk which touched first upon the promising number of candidates which were present. He went on to describe the nature of the coming season, discussing the first crew squad, and especially the status of the third boat...
University and Freshman crew candidates have been notified that meetings today will inaugurate the season of 1931. Upperclass oarsmen will report this afternoon in Lowell House common room at 4 o'clock to register, and to hear talks by Captain J. W. Hallowell '31, head coach C. J. Whiteside, Fred Sullivan '27, University 150-pound coach, E. J. Brown '96, class crew coach, and R. L. Scott '32, crew manager...
...puts University examiners under the temptation of trapping the trapper and giving tests that will beat Hun and fail everybody. (3) Shallow tutoring is foreign to the purpose of all worth-while study, encourages habits of mental laziness, and is worse than useless in preparing for comprehensive examinations of upperclass years. (4) It is partially responsible for the failure of men who relied, in Freshman, and Sophomore years, on intellectual dope and found it unavailing later. (This last charge is based upon records of men dropped for scholastic deficiency...