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...advantages of its size is the amount of contact between students and faculty, both in and out of class. Men get to know their teachers well in the small classes and seminars; and they meet them socially at student parties and dances. It is not uncommon for a Yale upperclassman to call his instructor by his first name...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster and William M. Simmons, S | Title: Gold Dust Twins of Legal Education Part Ways in Preparation for Bar | 9/12/1951 | See Source »

...long General Grant tank whose wheel chains were forged out of gold, and a miniature Hurricane fighter, built for him by R.A.F. mechanics. At 14, Feisal knotted on his father King Ghazi's old school tie, trundled off to Harrow, England. Today, he is a thin, straw-hatted upperclassman, with a reputation for athletics and authorship. This year, Feisal wrote a judo manual in Arabic for the use of the Iraqi army, presented the first copy to his great uncle King Abdullah of Jordan, who was assassinated last week. Its title: How to Defend Yourself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: TEEN-AGE ROYALTY | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

...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 to the present study ad program at the College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fumble | 5/9/1951 | See Source »

Look around you. If you see an upperclassman who has a well-fed, rested look, chances are he's from Adams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams House Offers Good Food, Swimming Pool, Nearness to Yard | 3/17/1951 | See Source »

...upperclassmen will be able to enter the R.O.T.C. unless higher authorities grant individual dispensations, Summerall said. Army regulations forbid students to take more than one Military Science course in the same year--which would be necessary for an upperclassman to earn a commission by graduation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summerall Permits 50 Additions to ROTC Unit | 2/17/1951 | See Source »

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