Word: underclassmen
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Next: The High Schools. Various explanations have been advanced for the relative calm attending 1970's rites of spring. Some observers point out that the most militant campus types often tend to be underclassmen-not seniors suddenly faced with work or the draft. Says one Princetonian: "Many seniors are out working for peace candidates. Graduation to them is irrelevant." Yet the reverse is also true: this year many students have shown a particularly keen interest in commencement-as amended...
...more as a catalyst and a tinkerer. His most influential role was as an educational goad, especially at Harvard, where he was responsible at least in part for such innovations as a revised graduate program for training schoolteachers, the Nieman fellowships for journalists and the general-education curriculum for underclassmen begun in the late 1940s. His greatest service to U.S. education was a 1959 report containing a score of key recommendations for strengthening the nation's public high schools. Long before most of the country was aware of an impending educational crisis, Conant pointed out that an integrated democracy...
Bloomfield will appoint three senior faculty members and three junior faculty members to the committee this week. Three underclassmen also will serve on the committee, which will make its recommendations to the English faculty next fall...
John B. Radner '60, assistant professor of English, is trying to organize elections in each Harvard and Radcliffe House for a committee of underclassmen English concentrators, similar to the already existing senior committee. Student representatives on the new student-faculty committee will be drawn from this committee of underclassmen...