Word: upperclassmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only those men who are on probation and dropped students are affected by this action. The regular dates of March 3 for upperclassmen and March 4 for Freshmen will continue as the dates for disciplinary action for men whose mid-year grades were unsatisfactory...
Other classes given in conjunction with the weight-reducing division will come at 3 and 5 o'clock on the same days. So far this year the classes have been open only to Freshmen, but hereafter they will be made up of upperclassmen and graduate school students. The primary point of these classes is to develop the body and correct physical deficiencies...
Probation will start on March 3 for upperclassmen who fail to meet their requirements at the mid-years and on March 10 for Freshmen who fail in their examinations. Men on probation now and who get the marks required to relieve them from probation will get off sometime between February 17 and February 24 according to when all the grades are turned in at the College office...
...competition for the news department is for Freshmen and will last 11 weeks. The work will consist mainly of gathering and writing news. This competition enables the 1928 men to become acquainted with members of the faculty and upperclassmen of influence...
Aside from the fling at Eve, there is some justification for Dean Greenough's remarks on athleticism versus scholarship. Only 17.9 percent of all upperclassmen last year obtained honor grouping of any description. This is not a record of capacity, but of accomplishment. It would be preposterous to think that more than four-fifths of the upperclassmen are actually unable to meet the requirements for honors. The simple fact is that too many are content with merely satisfactory grades. A man who devotes himself to studies, and nothing else, is thought one-sided. And the opinion is not without foundation...