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...increasing number of applicants for admission will make it easier for the College to choose a larger number of freshmen from those applicants with a predicted rank list of Group I or II. Indeed, even now there is much support for choosing the incoming class from those candidates with the highest predicted Rank List. This feeling is most prevalent among the younger faculty members, products of the modern Ph.D. factories, and among some members of the science departments...
What started as a random housing assignment for two incoming freshmen in 1983 has since turned into a public service organization that has helped over one million people and enlisted as many volunteers...
...first-years in their preferred residences in only 13.9 seconds. This move stirred fears of bias toward alumni children and athletes, and the card-sorting process was overseen by two students to “check everything themselves, if they wish,” said Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman...
...According to current Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman ’67, who was then the assistant dean for housing, renovations of the other River Houses occurred during the following summers. Coburn emphasized the importance of flexibility in construction, such as a summer building schedule, as a way to avoid inconvenience in housing students, and to allow for the postponement of certain work at any time...
Throughout the 2006-2007 academic year, a committee led by outgoing Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam and Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman '67 met on a biweekly basis to "consider the first-year experience in broad terms" in order to propose a series of recommendations relating to social, extracurricular, residential, and academic life of students that would help shape the outcome of their college experiences...