Word: classed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...himself busy. His agonies during the game are reportedly epic, and his impatience is said to be monumental and growing. There is no question that he will be back as soon as the risk can be reasonably taken, and all Cambridge is waiting for the day. No. Name Pos. Class Age Ht. Wt. 11 Williams, Roy HB Jr. 20 6-1 180 12 Taylor, C. William HB So. 18 6-0 190 14 *Rcpsher, Lawrence HB Sr. 21 5-11 185 16 Boone, Thomas HB Jr. 20 5-10 175 20 Watts, H. Grady...
...clearer case of regression is the "Andover Syndrome." From a school where a majority of the top of the class is bound for Yale, Harvard receives a group which has thought of itself as an intellectually oriented and superior minority. On arrival they find that the grading system does not endorse their superiority, that people with the same social outlook they rejected at Andover are quite successful at Harvard, and Harvard is not quite as ready as they had hoped to embrace all intellectuals with unqualified social success...
Prospective scientists, for example, comprise almost half the entering class, but little more than a quarter graduate as science concentrators. It is true that Harvard does exert various kinds of indirect pressure against science, but the change is also the natural result of the easy form science takes in school. Science is one area where the talented student can show clear and measurable competence and be drawn into a orientation toward college which produces a clear articulation of the relation between education and life...
...honors thesis, Robert W. McCarley studied the Freshman year with extensive and examined the "total institution" . Although his conclusions suggested reservation on the "totality' of the Freshman year, he a student culture, and found that rather representing the upper class values of the Harvard stereotype, the College was dominated by a middle class outlook. Indeed, showed that their emphasis on ascribed and experiencing college put students from upper class backgrounds under greater stress than middle class contemporaries who emphasis achieved status and looked at the College opportunity for further achievement...
...astonishing that a perceptible should exist in such a diverse, diffuse, and group as the Freshman class. The would seem few ways for this culture, admitting its existence, to penetrate the circles of friends which dominate the beginning of the year, the time when McCarley found greatest changes. One of the best explanation can be found in the traditional references to impersonality of the Union, the living in the Yard, and the inchoate nature most other common Freshman experiences...