Word: classman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wilcox proposed that any upper-classman who has taken more than four courses in one term be permitted to take fewer than four in a later term. "But this wasn't in any sense a formal proposal," he said. "If it were going to be adopted, it would have to be accompanied by a lot of other changes...
...college algebra, Latin and Russian. Often recruited from Culver's resoundingly successful summer camp, the boys seem to thrive on the school's theory that esprit de corps enhances the spirit of study. "I didn't know how to work at home," says one first-classman. "Here you learn to think and reason, not just learn things by rote...
...plebe, Abrams had problems at West Point. "The hazing was degrading," says Abrams today. "I gladly would have resigned at any time, but I didn't see how I could go home to face my friends and family." Abrams swiped food from the mess hall, anointed an upper-classman's radiator with Limburger cheese, kept a contraband radio in a hollowed-out corner of his mattress, and plinked away at the hindquarters of upperclassmen with an air rifle. Recalls Abrams: "The only thing in which I was outstanding was discipline. I was at the bottom of the class...