Word: freshmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...location is only temporary, but even at that it is far more convenient for the Freshmen than the old site. Smith and Standish Halls are just across the street from it, and Gore and McKinlock are but a short distance away...
...President Ernest Martin Hopkins had a stern welcome prepared for Dartmouth freshmen. Said he, in the convocation ad dress: "College officers are forced to hold due reservation and to remain only mildly impressed by eloquent contentions that colleges exist solely to satisfy the wishes of the undergraduates. . . . What seems best for mankind as a whole cannot be forgotten or ignored in college management for the specious satisfaction of con forming to an ephemeral undergraduate opinion or the desires of self-centered individuals...
...years ago at the University of Wisconsin Prof. Alexander Meiklejohn, one-time Amherst President, began an "experimental" college. His freshmen were to study only Periclean culture, his sophomores U. S. history, sociology. From the experimental college they were to enter the University's junior class (TIME, June 18. Sept. 10, 1928). This year the first batch of experiments will be thrown in with the general run of undergraduates. President Glenn Frank, Dr. Meiklejohn's great & good friend, who sponsored the experimental college, will soon have proof of his pet pedagogical pudding...
...Nichols' experience as Dean of Freshmen at Harvard for two years qualifies him to speak with authority, and undoubtedly many of the fatalities that reduce an average matriculating class of nearly 1000 to less than 600 at graduation may be laid to the fact that the college had nothing to offer the men in the four categories he mentions. It might be assumed that the eliminations are rather beneficial than tragic and that both students and university benefit from the severing of a connection that hinders both in attaining their real goals. But Mr. Nichols' explanation does not cover more...
Through the closer cooperation of Freshmen Deans Chauncey and Hindmarsh, the Advisers were able to visit personally some 114 students who came from foreign countries, entered on condition, or for some other reason, needed special assistance. Later in the year, each adviser will check up his advisees' records in order to learn whether they have further need...