Word: freshman
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There are still rough spots that might well be eliminated from Gov 1. In the lectures last winter, the material presented was often diluted with trivialities far more than was necessary to keep the course within the mental range of a Freshman. Similarly, the emphasis placed upon various topics discussed was not always commensurate with their real importance. As for that perennial blight of large courses, section meetings, they are still of little value to the man who has covered the assignments for himself. But time should remedy the first defect and the second will be solved when section...
...improvement in the Freshman Advisory system announced in yesterday's CRIMSON is indicative of a change in attitude toward the treatment of first year students. Formerly it had been the practice to give the least attention to this class on the grounds that the elementary quality of those subjects open to them did not warrant any more attention. For obvious reasons, the result was disastrous. After being thrust into an entirely different mode of education, and then being left to the by-no-means capable hands of the average Freshman instructor, it is small wonder that there was considerable trouble...
Under the new plan and its subsequent developments, an effort is to be made to provide adequate instruction for the Freshman class. The immediate change, the development of the advisory system, is the smallest and least important item of this development. It is quite possible, however, that a greater and more expert personal interest in individual first year men will help to avoid many of the usual scholastic pitfalls that threaten at the beginning of the college career. But to accomplish any substantial reform, the entire system of instruction of the first year must be improved. When this is done...
Commenting on this idea before it was decided upon, Dean Hanford said in a recent number of the Advocate: "Notwithstanding the work of the Freshman advisers and instructors in elementary courses, there are always a number of willing and capable students who find the first few months of college very difficult, who fail to plan their time properly, do not know how to take notes or to study effectively and finding themselves groping in the dark and becoming discouraged. Oftentimes a suggestion or two will set such a student back on the right track. In many cases the suggestion will...
This plan is but a step toward a general improvement of the Freshman year which is to be carried out while the House Plan is still in the formative stage. When the Freshmen are moved into the Yard other changes are to be made to improve the general instruction of the first year courses...