Word: upperclassmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reading is open to all Freshmen and also to upperclassmen who are members of the Union. Freshmen may procure admittance cards for the reading from the proctors in the Freshman dormitories, from the office of the Graduate Manager of the Union, or from the Assistant Dean of the Freshman class...
President Bibben, in the annual alumni address at Princeton, outlined a plan whereby upperclassmen would be left to more independent study followed by a comprehensive examination. He said that "with the plan I am presenting to you we can say to the undergraduates, "Here is a great subject. We will help you, but we wish you to go as an explorer into this undiscovered country. . . . The emphasis would be changed from the absorption of easily memorized facts to independent and original study of a subject--the very kind of mental process that the undergraduates will be expected to carry...
...tendency to overdo. It may be difficult to get a man to eat his first olive, but once his, taste is excited, it is as equally difficult to make him eat them in moderation. Only this fall one college has been forced to declare thirteen Freshmen and three upperclassmen ineligible for its football team, largely because of studies. It is still possible to take a leaf from Thomas Fuller's philosophy of three hundred years ago, and be wary of "wearing nothing but fringes and eating nothing but sauces...
Rowing for the majority of upperclassmen will start this afternoon at 5.15 o'clock when candidates for the class crews report at Newell boathouse. Coach E. J. Brown '96 will again have charge of these men, while Coach William Haines is to supervise the work of the 150-pound eights...
...been noted, one of the greatest, if not the greatest handicap is lack, of time for advisers. By abolishing the regulation requiring that upperclassmen have advisers the number of advisees per faculty member could be reduced by nearby one-half. Then more time could be given to the individual cases which is the all important element. And the services of any too busy or too proud to advice could be eliminated...