Word: classes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Dropped freshmen are those who have completed a year unsatisfactorily. Half of these will graduate to the class of '48 at mid-years, the remainder becoming regular members of the Class...
With representatives from Iceland and Hong Kong, the class will still be mainly composed of Bay Staters and New Yorkers following the pattern of other classes in the last decade. Several are listed as having prepared in French lycees, although the refugee group is not as noticeable as last year when families had not yet become so completely absorbed...
...beginning of the year the class will be divided between Deans Keppel and Huntington with the exception of the National Scholarship areas which are under Dean Chauncey. These National Scholarships are handled by a complicated sorting and tabulating machine known as "Chauncey's brain child" on the top floor of University Hall...
Last year an exhaustive poll of the Senior class taken for the Senior Album revealed, among other useless information, that the class of 1940 rated girls' colleges in the following order of popularity: Radcliffe, Welleslcy, Smith, Vassar, Bennington...
Radcliffe, Harvard's little sister, is the traditional butt of Harvard humor. The typical Radcliffeite is pictured as a bony female wearing flat-heeled shoes, and horn-rimmed glasses, and carrying half a dozen textbooks; usually her slip is showing. But the vote of the class of 1940 seemed to belie that conception--or else last year's Seniors liked them that way. Radcliffe is conveniently close, the girls are generally more intelligent than at other colleges, and they don't mind riding subways or sitting in the balcony. At the beginning of the year the Radcliffe Houses hold...