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Page 26 text:
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Inevitably, my opinions of the Class of 1975 are colored by impressions of the students that I have known best, and by the circumstances in which I have seen these students. However, despite my obvious bias, I think that some generalizations about this class can be made. What impresses me most about the class is the change that I have seen in its members and in the way that the university has changed since this group of students arrived. During the fall of 1971, Tufts was undergoing considerable intellectual ferment and innovation; the College Within was starting and I was one of its faculty mentors. Freshmen coming into the College Within were joining a group of intellectually curious, but often discontented, peers. I have the feeling that this discontent frequently puzzled freshmen and was possibly one of the influences making them seem more staid and conventional . During the ensuing three years there does appear to have been a change toward accepting conventional education and working hard to do well within the system, rather than trying to alter it. For example, the College Within and the Plan of Study program now attract much less interest and the Winter Study period received less support from students during its final year than in earlier years. All of these impressions correlate with what seems to be an increasing drive to receive higher gr ades. While an attitude of somehow almost everyone deserves at least a B in any course is a particularly distressing one, it is coupled with a strong desire to work hard and to succeed: a most welcome trait. Finally, I should say that this spring ' s crop of seniors has produced an unusually talented group of people who are intellectually curious and unusually dedicated to studying population biology. I would like to think that they constitute a representative sampling of the Class of 1975. Benjamin Dane Biology Department 22
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It ' s 1975. I have to continually remind myself that it ' s 1975. I have to continually remind myself that when three civil rights workers — two Jews and a black — were murdered in Mississippi decade ago, the freshmen sitting in front of me were seven years old. That means that most of this class ' graduating seniors — the class of 1975 — were ten or eleven when Mario Savio started the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley. They weren ' t even teenagers when the first anti-Vietnam Teach-Ins began at Tufts. This is the great problem for any teacher: to build a bridge between generations, to give a sense of the continuity of things, so that each class can have the benefit of the past as well as of the present. The class of ' 75 is the first of the Depression Babies — the New Depression of the 1970s. Their instincts are more focused on their needs, on their own problems in finding a place for themselves in society. There was a certain atmosphere of desperation with this group at times, an occasional manifestation of dog-eat- doggedness, a sense of that gal next to me may be trying for my spot in Law School. There was the fall-out from De Funis and the Supreme Court. On other campuses, one heard tales of experiments being destroyed. But thank heavens, the bunch held together! This was also the first of the Nostalgia zanies, the ballroom dancers, the musical comedians, the bona fide film freaks. In spite of the pressures to break apart into a kind of look out for yourself isolation, this class kept its balance, its per¬ spective on life, its relationship to past, present, and future, and above all, its sense of humor, at times when things weren ' t that funny. The prob¬ lems and solutions of the 1960s meant little to the class of ' 75. These young people were forced to mature with other pressures. There was a differ¬ ent urgency. But they never lost their sense of kinship with each other; and they left those of us who stay behind richer for having known them. Sol Gittleman German Department 23
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