Word: groups
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Every minority group in America has sought to "better itself." The process of moving up and getting more, social mobility, involves learning how the middle class dresses, walks, talks, reads, buys, sells, eats, thinks, lies, steals, etc. All classes but the lower determine who shall enter into them. If one wants to become middle class, which in this context is defined as a white collar economic position and a constellation of surface forms that accompany it, one emulates those forms and somewhere along the way becomes employed in the white collar world...
Only one of the University's more than 30 fields and departments offers tutorial instruction to non-Honors juniors and seniors. Although the English Department's unique program is both voluntary and non-credit, about 70 per cent of the 221 non-Honors concentrators attend their group meetings regularly, according to David D. Perkins '51, Head Tutor of the Department...
Junior non-Honors, however, meets a groups of up to six people. Should the individual interests or needs within given group vary, students can switch tutors; and the Department will assign students expressing preferences for a given author to a tutor doing work in that period...
...least four juniors have switched tutors this year solely because they were interested in material other than that covered by their group. The problem of conflicting interests does not arise in Senior non-Honors tutorial, which runs largely on an individual basis...
...Faculty, at its first monthly meeting of the term, postponed discussion of one of the great pending issues of the Administration--the future size of the College. The group heard only introductory remarks on the matter by Seymour '20, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, and tabled further until next month...