Word: upperclassmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last year for the first time, attracted over 350 upper classmen, and since the lack of facilities forces the limitation of the enrollment to 300, Prof G. H. Parker '87 has decided that Freshmen must be barred. In all probability admission to the course will also be denied to upperclassmen below Group V in the rank list...
...effort to "save the Freshman," Maine University has instituted a "Pre-Freshman week." Dr. Little, Maine President, outlined this plan: "Pre-Freshman week has among its objects the providing of an opportunity, before the rush of the returning upperclassmen starts, to study carefully the individual problems of freshmen and to assist in estimating their ability to meet the responsibilities and difficulties of college life. It is our belief that in many institutions much time has been wasted by admitting to college a certain number of individuals who could have been warned in advance that the likelihood of their meeting satisfactorily...
...chief trouble has been indifference on the part of the advisers, indifference arising from the fact that the contact between adviser and advisee is a bit unnatural and therefore unpleasant. The committee has tried to lessen the unpleasantness of the contact, first by assigning to Freshmen upperclassmen whom they already know, and secondly by suggesting to the advisers specific subjects upon which the Freshmen may want advice. The first of these aims was accomplished in only about one half of the total number of cases a situation partly due to the haste of the committee in assigning advisers to Freshmen...
...office duties. The competition will give the candidates an excellent opportunity to become acquainted with modern advertising and business methods, and will afford them a thorough training for any business career. No previous experience along business lines is required. The competition will bring candidates into contact not only with upperclassmen but also with business men in and near Boston, among whose an acquaintanceship may be formed that will prove to be of benefit in later life...
...Upperclassmen On Probation...