Word: freshmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Favorite choice of Freshmen as an occupation this year was the medical profession, with law and education trailing in its wake. Below these three in ranking of popularity came business. Back in the buoyant and optimistic twenties a class that made such a choice would have been branded as down-right heretical by rugged individualistic, Coolidge-loving fathers. But America has changed since then...
...Freshmen must call at the Office of the Department of Physical Education, 15 Holyoke Street, and secure an appointment for a medical examination which will not conflict with college classes. All Freshmen are required to have this medical examination in addition to the examination given at the Indoor Athletic Building. Arrangements should be made at once. Arlie V. Bock...
Physical education for the Freshmen started yesterday with a preliminary meeting at New Lecture Hall at which the Yardlings signed up for fall sports...
...experiment, a group of sixteen Freshmen showed marked improvement in reading skill and some advance in scholastic standing, after eight weeks of special training last fall. They increased their reading speed by 50 percent, gained in reading accuracy, and altered for the better their habits of eye movement...
Progress of the experimental group was compared with the records made by a control group of 16 Freshmen, with admission records similar to those of the control group. The control group was given no special training. Comparison of Midyear with November grades showed that while ten students in the experimental group had better records, only five of the "control" group had made improvement...