Word: upperclass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the upturn in college enrollments indicated by early registration reports was definitely established. Graduate enrollments were generally down, upperclass figures showed small change. But the entering freshmen numbered from 10% to 35% more than last year. Harvard had the largest undergraduate enrollment in its history and Pennsylvania State, University of California and University of Texas showed record sum-totals. Other campus news of last fortnight...
With this issue the CRIMSON opens publication of the annual Confidential Guide to several upperclass courses which has appeared regularly in the CRIMSON for the last few years previous to the date for handing in study cards...
...Conant's program for the consolidation and creation of highly remunerative scholarships and followships, to bring to Harvard a community of the most brilliant students from all sections of the country. And now, according to the "Yale News", the Elis are about to have a four-course plan of upperclass study, with a comprehensive examination covering the student's field of study, and in some cases a thesis...
While Yale does not go quite so far as Princeton in this direction, it is interesting to note that this new method of upperclass study will be linked to the House Plan, since the tutorial work will be carried on by House fellows, who will have nothing to do with the making out or grading of examinations at all. This will be done by committees from the various graduate faculties. This seems a step in the direction of divorcement of tutorial work from all ordinary teaching, which will be viewed with interest by all educators, especially if it goes...
Surely it should not require a year to mould the prospective scholar into ductile shape for upperclass work; at least, that year should involve a progress beyond his intellectual adolescence. The standards in the elemental subjects with which the prospect has chosen to arm himself to pass the Chairman of Admissions must be raised so that these subjects need not be taught to such students in College in their introductory form. None would suggest the elimination of primary courses, but they should become the canape rather than the cocktail of the freshman year...