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...Well, Frescio, you have got that down pretty fine," remarked an upper-classman to a freshman as he was arranging the faint down of a new existence on his upper...
...Cambridge, England, every upper classman calls on each freshman of his college, and the freshman must return the call. The upper classman, if his younger brother is out, leaves his card, but the freshman must persevere until he finds his senior at home...
Thus he was engaged, doing the agreeable, and was flattering himself that he was becoming a genuine "Little-Tin-God," when, to his unspeakable horror, what did he see but his own true-love, with her friend and an upper classman, whom he recognized as a relative of the latter, entering the field and taking a seat on a neighboring bench. Shipkins could have met annihilation with calm satisfaction, but to meet her, - her whom he had invited and then failed to meet, and for her to see him with another, - it was too much...
...members of '83, who attended the Globe in a body last Monday, seem to believe that they have obtained the enviable name of "hard men," by their antics during the performance, they should at once be informed that no upper classman regarded their conduct as at all "tough" or "manly." On the contrary, it was considered extremely "soft" and "childish." To say, however, that '83's behavior was childish, is not enough; it was disgraceful. For any conduct on the part of students is disgraceful that calls forth disapproval of its rowdiness from such professed North-End rowdies as packed...
...says the Freshman, who has been here just long enough to have learned that the modesty which pauses to knock at the Secretary's door is not regarded with favor by that officer. Longer experience, however, often tends to disturb this conviction, and in the mind of an upper-classman it becomes softened into the statement, "Harvard is the best College in America"; which is agreeable, but open to the charge of vagueness. Negatively, I think, it may be taken for granted that "Harvard is not a high school." It is also plain that Harvard is not a theological school...