Word: upperclasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advising committee deplores the lack of personal contact between upperclass students and faculty members in all departments of the College. But it is mainly concerned with the five largest fields, in which the depersonalized system of education has come into fairly general practice. That the fields of Economics, English, Government, History, and Social Relations should house 60 percent of the upperclassmen and yet have only 32.7 percent of the total faculty manpower is cited as the cause for concentrators in these fields receiving "an education which is markedly different from that received by concentrators of other departments...
...fact that Yale has ten upperclass living units as opposed to Harvard's eight--seven Houses and the Dudley Computer's Center--makes the intra program at New Haven slightly more expensive. The whole plan, including freshman dormitory sports, costs the Y.A.A. $25,000. Samborski says the inter-House program here costs $18,000, with the freshmen taking a couple hundred more...
Dudley Hall will have its own "House" dinner this spring for the first time in history, as the result of a vote yesterday by the Commuters' Committee. Although the upperclass Houses hold these dinners annually, the University has never before granted Dudley the necessary funds...
Here is a sport without flaw, approaching at last--the ideal of student participation. It combines the virtues of team spirit, rivalry, and upperclass exercise. There is no better training in sportsmanship than an Ivy League goal-post riot, run on strict gentleman's rules. Above all, it has spectator appeal with no taint of professionalism...
...added that "the University sets the tone of Princeton, and also the prevailing wage standards. Except for the stewards, colored people working at the (upperclass) clubs receive vary little increase in wages...