Word: classman
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Another strange custom was a rule compelling a lower classman to keep his hat removed from his head while a member of one of the upper classes was in the yard. This custom was finally broken up by a young freshman named Hedge, who, when ordered to uncover by an imperious upper classman, responded to the command by a heavy blow of his fist on the nose of his superior and was supported by the President for his independence...
...American College freshman has undergone an almost startling development, and has become a much more appreciable quantity in college life than ever before. To us old fellows the change is decidedly bewildering. In our day the freshman was currently believed to possess no rights which an upper classman was bound to respect. He was despised and rejected. He was the hewer of wood and drawer of water for all his sophomore neighbors. He was regarded as the legitimate and proper object of all manner of "cussing," in dignity and torture. He was hazed. He was smoked out. He was dragged...
...most powerful argument yet produced in favor of more light late in the evening in the halls of the main buildings is a little incident that happened there not long since. An upper classman while coming down stairs from a late recitation rushed up to a co-ed and with a swoop of his right arm encircled her neck, saying, "Hello Bill, old boy. How de do." When the time for red fire and slow music came he might have been seen hanging from the window sill of the 4th story hall blushing like a house afire.-[Michigan Chronicle...
...Christian Brethren shingle. We were obliged to notice an offence of the same nature last year, when the shingle of the St. Paul's society was stolen. But few words need be said on the subject now. We would merely say to the freshmen, for no upper classman would have played such a contemptible trick, that one's reputation for "nerve" is not to be increased by such means, and that if the perpetrator of this outrage becomes known, his college career will not be materially aided...
Freshman, overheard asking upper classman, "Do you make application to the dean for the tennis courts...