Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...function of nagging careless students, the Committee on the Use of English by Students works to good effect. Its warnings and summonses enforced by threats of English F do much to inculcate the idea that English A sets a minimum standard for upper class men as well as freshmen. But in dealing with particular cases, the ways of the Committee are inscrutable...
...justification of this slipshod connection between error and its correction is an avowedly personal one. The secrecy is designed to protect instructors from unpopularity among students whom they report. On its face, this apprehensive anonymity is unscholarly and harmful. For, each upper classman, not a transfer student, has passed or anticipated English A. He knows the elements of composition. Yet in cases of deficiency, in default of specific allegation, he must make a more or less general review of rhetorical principles To confront him with his actual written errors and thus to remind him also of the specific conditions under...
There is an ancient but tenacious theory that Harvard is indifferent. Freshmen have been its chief exponents when they have not been received with due regard to their self-importance. Upper-classmen have usually, and with justice sneered at this charge or have accepted it as another distinguishing trait. That they have treated it with such levity has probably been due to superficial consideration and not to any profound Machiavellian conceit. Hence it is with pleasure that they welcome the Student Council's latest offspring, the Committee on Relations With Schools...
...Johns Hopkins trustees recommend the transference of the transitional phase of education which they are relinquishing to the junior colleges. These institutions pick up the loose ends of preparatory training and link them with the first two college years. But deprived of the maturer influence of upper classmen, the youthful student is hardly as well off at the junior college as in the freshman or sophomore class of the ordinary college or university. The opportunities for browsing around libraries, the possibilities of contact with an inspiring lecturer or tutor are much more numerous at the higher institutions. The elimination from...
...Lougallo the younger, and Boldassare Peruzzi Professor Babbitt will talk on the aesthetic letters of Schiller this noon in Harvard 5 and if only because of hearing a few other lectures by Professor Babbitt the temptation to forsake my pursuit of Professor Edgell and the fine arts for the upper reaches of Harvard Hall grows constantly stronger. To make matters even more complicated Dr. Murdock has announced a lecture on "English books of contemplations and questions of the Seventeenth Century" which he will give in Harvard...