Word: upperclassmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...function than the Student Advisory Committee, and, as far at least as this year is concerned, few have fulfilled their functions with more intelligence or greater success. In that process of orientation which is so essential to the assimilation of a thousand new students, the advice which well-directed upperclassmen can give to Freshmen needs neither a sophisticated superiority nor the absence of a healthy indifference...
...release for publication by the Committee of a few of the reports which have been inaugurated this year seems to have evoked a mild protest. It is true that this protest comes not from the Freshman class, but rather from upperclassmen whose discreet susceptibilities have been wounded. But it remains a protest...
...charge of sensationalism must remain absurd. Perhaps the protests of upperclassmen may be explained by resentment at any tentative attempt to invest the Freshman Dormitories with those attributes which have for so long been the monopoly of the Gold Coast. But anyone who finds sensationalism in the mild comment of the reports in question betrays a purposeful search that does him more discredit than the reports could do to any Freshman...
...feed in company and not in isolation or among a horde of strangers, gulping down his coffee and sandwiches. Since Memorial Hall was discontinued with its big common dining-room and club tables for friends, the habit of snatching meals at odd hours during the day has afficted the upperclassmen...
...reference by the Freshman Deans to provide-for any academic emergency when information is desired about an undergraduate It will be necessary, therefore, for a member of the Committee to keep in close touch with his group of Freshmen throughout the year. I believe that this closer relationship between upperclassmen and Freshmen will succeed in overcoming many of the difficulties generally encountered by men of the entering class. All men on the Committee with whom I have spoken consider their work both enjoyable and interesting, so that I feel certain their duties will not be neglected as the year continues...