Word: upperclasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Part of the reason for the popularity of the humanities may stem from its suitability for Princeton's famed preceptorial system. This system, inaugurated in 1905 by President Woodrow Wilson, has been an essential part of all humanities and social science upperclass courses ever since. The precept is Princeton's version of Harvard's section meeting, but has proved exceptionally successful because of its small size and the calibre of the men teaching it. The ideal precept is five or six students, although some have recently been as large as eight or ten. This contrasts with the average Harvard section...
...contemporaries." Harbison also emphasized the value of the intimate association of professor and pupil on the basis of fellow-students rather through the artificial system of lectures and recitations. Princeton's faculty is so sold on the precept, says Harbison, that it has become the "heart of the upperclass course," with the lectures and the reading secondary...
...Upperclass competition for the CRIMSON opens this Monday evening. Oct. 5, with a big beer blast at 7:30 p.m. in the CRIMSON's offices on Plympton...
...number of top-flight members of the freshman class were disappointed last Saturday. Students prominent in football, high rank list groups, and College activities were notified of their assignment to Claverly Hall, traditionally the least desirable of upperclass locations...
...only are the disadvantages of the present House preference system exaggerated, but there are certain positive benefits in it. Freshmen often decide on a House because of the upperclass friends they have there. In an assignment system, there would be little chance of their being accepted at this same House. Then, too, since freshmen have a choice, competition has developed which is often valuable to the Houses. Forums are planned, trophies sought, and improvements instituted with special thought to their effect in interesting freshmen...