Word: upperclassmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teaching economics. As Harvard's first dean of freshmen in 1931, Leighton warmed up cold Cambridge by housing freshmen together for mutual aid. As dean of the college in 1952, he revitalized the famed house system by installing bright young professors as "senior tutors" to live with upperclassmen and make the houses the center of Harvard intellectual life. In 1958, Leighton drew commuter students closer to Harvard as first master of Dudley House, a nonresident center with everything (tutorials, athletics) except beds. Leighton thinks Harvard still "needs a lot of fixing." But he has done more than his share...
...year began, as have most recent years at Harvard, with too many students. A total of 1216 freshmen, and over 3000 upperclassmen registered during the third week of September. The Class of 1966 contained 40 more students than the Dean's Office had planned for, as a result of an unusually high rate of acceptance among admitted students...
...undergraduates spend more than 20 hours each week preparing their lessons, and that leaves them much time to think about other things. Since they are not confronted with financial or professional pressures, they can spend time wondering about themselves. They exist in a community of intellectual superiors; upperclassmen, professors, men who have written good books; and they begin to wonder whether there is anything they can possibly achieve. Their questions grow increasingly insistent as they progress towards graduation and the choice of a career. Some people are temporarily paralyzed by the discordance they sense between themselves and the community around...
...size of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences had increased more than 50 per cent. Undergraduate enrollment rose from 3200 in 1930 to a post-war high of more than 5500 in 1948. In 1956 the influx of veterans subsided, and enrollment dropped to 4500. Still, 2,666 upperclassmen were living in facilities designed to accomodate 1,846, and 843 freshmen were crammed into living space designed for 557. More than 300 students could not be housed in University facilities...
...beginning of the Program, the Yard dormitories were in even worse shape than the Houses. With 167 upperclassmen living in Wigglesworth, and with half of Weld occupied by administrative offices, 843 freshmen were crammed into living space designed for 557. Two freshman dormitories were purchased on Prescott Street (Hurlburt and Green- A Program for Harvard College 1. TEACHERS To Support Faculty Salaries $16,000,000 For New Chairs 5,000,000 2. STUDENTS Financial Aid to Undergraduates 4,000,000 Endowment to Support Athletic Program 2,000,000 A Health Center 2,500,000 3. A PLACE TO LEARN Library...