Word: freshman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both Varsity and Freshman squads are having regular practice now, complete with training table at the Varsity Club. The Varsity group is notable for the many 1940 and 1939 men who have come out for the team, because most of last year's world beaters have gone, leaving opportunities galore for the non record-breakers. So far, the 1942 swimmers have shown no remarkable talent; most of the leading prop school tankmen (Mercersburg, for example) still seem to be going to Yale...
...emphasize football is to hold the games in the morning. Another is to quit subsidizing players. The University of Pittsburgh, whose eleven is justly famed, seemed to have taken the second course last week. It ordered 22 freshman football players to pay the promissory notes they had signed for the first semester's tuition...
Personnel of the second and third lines has not been decided upon as yet. The only letterman combination other than the first line is the trio of Joe Patrick, Freddie deRahm and Jack Cunningham, while last year's Freshman line of Bob Cox, Joe Willetts, and Stacy Hulse is being kept intact...
Also in order would be a drastic extension of freshman tutorial to include at least several more groups on the Rank List. Obviously in this second capacity it benefits the average as well as the honors student. A corollary of this step is the restriction of tutorial reading assignments so that too much extra work will not be placed upon those students who cannot well bear...
...must be granted, of course, that such an extension is antagonistic to the conception of freshman tutorial as a means of guiding the advanced work of exceptional students. Perhaps, in the final analysis, the institution of these modifications depends upon a decision as to which of the two functions is the more important; and this decision rests upon University Hall. Since, however, the potentialities exist for aiding a large portion of the freshman class in a matter of extreme importance, the second function must be given full and deliberate consideration...