Word: classman
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...problems and new conditions to which the Freshman must adjust himself, as well as an appreciation of the plasticity of Freshman character, Dr. Fitch has aided many a bewildered yearling in discovering what things in college life are real and lasting and what things are sham. Many an upper classman remembers with gratitude Dr. Fitch's talks which, coming as they did straight from the shoulder, gave him during an uncertain and somewhat disturbing period his first conception of college in the larger sense...
...Junior Dance has been known since time and the Junior Class began, or thereabouts, as the most festive occasion of the third classman's usual festive season. An invitation to it has been the ultimate heaven of every debutante; and even those proud and few chosen Seniors who are admitted have felt themselves rejuvenated in memory of more youthful and frolicsome days. Even the proletariat thronging the veranda of the Union and peering hopelessly within, has felt itself part of the glories of the Juniors' Valhalla...
...high school valedictories. "Another Fledgling Leaves the Nest" is without equal. The closing lines could not but touch the heart of the most cynical, nor is the wealth of advice contained in them less astounding when one considers that such profound knowledge of the world comes from an under-classman...
...undoubtedly right. The requirements for admission to first or second group are higher in the case of Freshmen than for members of the three other classes. In support of this difference in distinction requirements it has been argued that the Freshman is taking elementary courses, whereas the upper classman is delving into more difficult studies. However, this argument neglects the fact that students in their first year have not yet outlived preparatory school methods and find great difficulty in adapting themselves to college methods of study. It overlooks the consideration that elementary courses offer quite as much difficulty...
...speak eight minutes on either side of the question, "Resolved, That for the student of average ability, a large college such as Harvard, Yale or Princeton is preferable to a small college such as Beloit, Williams or Bowdoin." Three men will be picked from each class. Any upper-classman may enter the trials by presenting himself at the appointed time...