Word: upperclassmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposal that has drawn the most attention calls for the housing of freshmen in the Quad, sophomores in the Yard and upperclassmen in the River Houses. Two weeks ago, an Overseers' Visiting Committee responded favorably to a discussion of the educational potential of this alternative by Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation. The committee decided to bring the proposal up at the next Overseers meeting...
Contact is informal; advice ranges from where to buy a lampshade or the best pizza to guided tours of Courses of Instruction to the drying of tears of homesickness. On the academic level, sign-up sheets are posted in each dorm on which upperclassmen list the courses they have taken. These resources lists have proved an invaluable source of information to freshmen (and to other upperclassmen...
...equal level with the many benefits which freshmen derive from the presence of upperclassmen in the residential environment are the advantages afforded to the upperclassmen themselves. While a certain amount of quiet and isolation for upperclassmen writing theses or pondering the uncertainties of life after Harvard is definitely desirable and indeed necessary. I feel that this objective is attainable within a four-class living situation. In all fairness, consideration for others' work habits does not necessarily correlate with one's age or class...
...Room 13 will agree, informal counseling is beneficial in both directions in providing perspective on one's college education and on life in general. If I had less respect for the privacy of my friends, I would quote specific examples of advice which I, as a freshman, received from upperclassmen and have since, as an upperclassman, been able to pass on to freshmen (and other upperclassmen). Such advice has been academic, extra-curricular, and personal. And, I might add, much of it, having been based on prior college experience, could not have been given to me by another freshman...
...maturity is far from insignificant. The challenge of living with those of other ages is, I believe, a valuable and potentially rewarding experience for all. And a certain amount of "self-sacrifice," if the label must go to that extreme, might not be such a terrible fate for upperclassmen...