Word: upperclass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instituted a year and a half ago the plan seeks to give the Yardling an early knowledge of the Houses through allowing him to eat meals in the upperclass dormitories at no extra expense...
...Freshmen who are inclined to take lightly this opportunity of eating meals with upperclass friends without causing them the expense of signing guest slips, it should be noted that this privilege was not lightly won. The University granted it only after the Houses had been in operation several years, and then on the recommendation of the Student Council, which vigorously championed the cause that Freshmen should be given every possible opportunity to know what they are signing for when they put in their applications for Houses in April...
With its center at University Hall the University roughly extends North and South. The central portion, comprising the Yard, contains mostly the homes of the Freshmen and the college classrooms. The northern third houses the science departments and many of the Graduate Schools. South of the Yard are the upperclass dormitories...
Originally this spring 1017 students applied for admission to the upperclass dormitories with 583 gaining admittance. Explanation of the discrepancy lay in the almost record number of applications as against an unusually small number of vacancies. The Class of 1938 is a bigger than average group as found in the Houses...
...suggestion to make English 2 an upperclass course springs from two sources: the feeling that many concentrators cover all the various types of literature in more detail in their upperclass studies, both in period courses and in tutorial, and the need that arises before divisionals for some course that would assimilate the mass of matter taken into one's head during three years and organize it into a unified and presentable whole. To achieve such a unification and to do away with the overlapping of two elementary courses in the first year, an advanced course in the types of English...