Word: upperclasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Third, the committee suggested an expanded program of upperclass advising for freshmen, and upperclass tutoring for freshmen in academic trouble. Upperclass advising has been tried twice before, and has always collapsed through lack of interest on both sides. Under the tutoring program, as envisioned in the committee report, "a freshman worried about a particular examination would contact . . . and upperclassman. . . (who) will then meet with the freshman and discuss with him problems of the course, e.g. the principal ideas of the course. . . etc." This could easily degenerate into official and organized note-cribbing, and would be an in unnecessary addition...
...feeling is that freshmen need the additional supervision that they get in the Yard; certainly there are no immediate plans to put entering classes in the upperclass Houses, but in the fall of 1952 it might have to be considered should a military training program keep cutting into the enrollment before the first trainees had finished their service...
Leverett wasn't always like this. After the war, it was one of the last Houses to re-open and got going very slowly. When the CRIMSON polled the Yard last year, only two percent of the class saw a bunny in their upperclass future...
Yale will distribute its top 200 freshmen among its ten upperclass resident colleges, if present plans hold...
...League, there is a strict dichotomy between the Big Three plus Dartmouth, which allow women in rooms, and Brown, Cornell, and Columbia, which do not. Yale's and Princeton's rules are similar to Harvard's. Princeton allows women in rooms until 7, until 9 in the upperclass eating clubs (later when there is a chaperoned event), and until 9 in the underclass "Campus Center" which in conceded to be inadequate for proper entertainment. A recent proposal to extend room permission to 9 was defeated by the Undergraduate Council before ever being presented to the Administration...