Word: upperclassman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WOULD YOU like a personal guide to Harvard?" tempted the application forms shoved at hand-out--hungry freshmen in the Union last fall. It sounded like a great deal: just fill out a short form and you get your own private mentor, an upperclassman "committed" to showing freshmen the Harvard ropes. The application blurb glowingly promises--in language reminiscent of day camp brochures--"the fun of making friends." Who doesn't need a friend freshman week? "Students Helping Students (SHS)--We are just what we sound like," read the advertisement for the organization. Well, not quite...
...report states the Faculty needs to improve the transition between the fresh-man proctorial system and the upperclassman housing departmental system...
They arrive on campus nervous but excited. An upperclassman shows them to their dorms. Stumbling across the quad, maps under their noses, they grope their way to classrooms in modern buildings. They listen attentively as professors talk about opportunity. At night they gather in a big dining hall. A typical college orientation? Not quite. The participants are middle-aged?parents being prepped on what college holds for their children...
...upperclassman advising me freshman year, I would have done a lot of things differently, like choose another major. All my adviser did was sign my study card," Jean B. Sitko '79, who applied to be an upperclass adviser, said yesterday...
...certainly apt. The lone upperclassman in the top six is junior Sally Roberts, Martha's older sister. Yes, it really is one big happy family...