Word: upperclass
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jewett should be at the center of attention this year as he pushes through a plan to partially randomize the lottery which allocates upperclass housing, despite opposition from most students and even a few house masters. Jewett will certainly be assisted in the task by Assistant Dean for the Housing System Thomas A. Dingman...
Lottery Footnote: Activist M. Scott Murphy '92, who spearheaded the successful effort to prevent 25 percent of the spaces in eight of 12 upperclass houses from being randomly assigned to freshmen, will be living in his second choice house next year--Lowell House. Lowell was one of four houses which had refused to participate in the new housing plan. So much for the effort, Scott...
Tutors and upperclass concentrators from most of the College's departments answered questions from anxious Yardlings during the event...
WHEN President Bok last spring asked all upperclass students to fill out a questionnaire about Harvard life, students and officials said the results would probably shape the College's agenda for the next few years. At that time, officials said they would hold an open forum to discuss the survey once the findings were tabulated. "The results will be made available in a public forum late in the spring," wrote Bok in a cover letter to the questionnaire...
...more interesting statistics the University released yesterday in its study on College life was that interest in attending graduate schools in the arts and sciences is at a high among Harvard undergraduates. According to the poll of 2360 upperclass undergraduates, one out of four students plans to attend graduate school in the arts and sciences...