Word: upperclassmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Upperclassmen Were Dropped...
...future also, Freshmen will be prohibited from wearing yellow slickers, a plain black slicker, a plain black slicker being required. The spinning of tops, and marble playing for upperclassmen have been dropped from the list of customs. However, the privilege of wearing silk hats has been restored to Juniors and Seniors...
...Haven, Yale Freshmen are not permitted to sit in the orchestra of Shubert's theatre, or to eat in Morey's restaurant. They must not enter the Hotel Garde, and must carry matches at all times for the convenience of upperclassmen. Freshmen are forbidden to sit on the Sophomore fence, except on the day of the Yale-Harvard Freshman baseball game when Yale wins. They are excluded from the Junior Prom, and only seniors are allowed to go without a hat, or to play marbles...
...neither in the interests of instructor, student, fair discipline, nor education can the present hour examinations be supported. Their only justification is in the cases of "doubtful" Freshmen and more than "doubtful" upperclassmen. In these two cases they might--after sufficient warning--be made bases for action. In any others they serve but to pile up work at University Hall, to swell the budgets of tutoring schools, and fatally to emphasize the mechanical side of education.--"Horidae Scholasticae...
...heard Professor Moore speak on Horace yesterday, in one of the series of lectures on the "Five Great Authors," will assuredly recognize in the Roman a human and lovable poet. To them the classics can hardly be "as dry as the remainder biscuit." With greater freedom of study for upperclassmen an interest aroused by such a series of lectures could easily be followed without detriment to concentration. Indeed, any revival of interest in classics when based upon their direct appeal to the undergraduate, is a happy solution of the dilemma which haunted educators of the last decade: knowledge of Latin...