Word: upperclassmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scientific Methods." Of the 250 enrolled in these half-year seminars, 80 per cent are super-literate freshmen who pulled the required 700's on both the verbal and math SAT's and 4's or 5's on the CEEB Advance Placement exam in English. The rest are upperclassmen who managed to impress section men with their enthusiasm or need for writing instruction at interviews this fall...
...less self-assured. "Some of those Cliffies are really petri- fied," said one of the section leaders. A Radcliffe freshman laments, "All the others are so brilliant. I'm frightened to open my mouth." Freshmen are often sure that at least half the class are juniors and seniors. Upperclassmen in the same section think the opposite -- "They put me in to balance out 18 brainy freshmen," comments...
Adding these specialized seminars to the only course all Harvard and Radcliffe students take has created some substantial headaches. Administrators were ready to assign 1300 freshmen to regular and honors Expository Writing 10. They expected that 10 or 15 upperclassmen would apply to join the 200 freshmen who qualified for the middle-level courses. When more than 100 upperclassmen showed up for interviews the middle group courses became painfully overcrowded -- some sections have as many as 20. The freshman stampede into middle-group courses left honors section so depopulated that even when everyone shows up there are only...
...Committee on Educational Policy yesterday backed a proposal to let all upperclassmen take a free, pass-fail fifth course...
...Faculty, and possibly the HUC, took a look at freshman parietals. After all, the freshmen are only a year younger than the sophomores and should be allowed to entertain their dates on Saturday evenings until midnight on a regular basis too. The latitude the Faculty has given upperclassmen in conducting their own social affairs ought to be extended, as far as possible, to the freshmen...