Word: perplexity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...students has grown much stronger. This result has been brought about by several causes. The creation of a board of freshman advisers has had the effect of making the first year men feel that the members of the Faculty are capable of a sympathetic understanding of the difficulties which perplex the new-comer. The very presence of the Committee for the Reception of New Students, composed as it is partly of professors and partly of students, at once impresses the stranger with the close relation existing between the two bodies. But perhaps what is contributing meet to bring about...