Word: classmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a growing suspicion among those who have studied customs and manners during the past four or five years that the phenomenon known to the newspapers as the Social Whirl is gradually coming to rely upon the services of lower classmen for its masculine support. In the Junior and Senior years there comes to many undergraduates an awakening to the value of evenings spent in College and a coincident distrust of the glittering allurements of the ball room. The consequent open spaces in the ranks of the stags are slowly being filled by members of the Freshman class...
...When I came here 42 years ago, things were different. The first Monday of the year was 'Bloody Monday'. The upper classmen went after the Freshmen, tore their clothes, kicked their hats around, and spread the pieces in the Square. Then I can remember a bon-fire in the Yard made from a collection of gates which had been removed from neighborhood hinges...
...arrives. And he is less than the dust of the area. He is fed, clothed, inspected as to teeth and hoofs exactly as a horse would be. He must stand at attention for all officers. Upper classmen are all Mr. So-and-so to him. He cannot speak to them without being spoken to, he pulls his chin back and elevates his chest by orders, and gradually it dawns on him that he is not appreciated. That the hero of Podunk is completely obscured at West Point! And in him, perhaps, is born the realization that he is important only...
...bureau of information for students in the University is maintained daily from 9 until 5 o'clock in the Phillips Brooks House at the northwest corner of the yard. A committee of upper classmen will be present to talk with new men, to take charge of mail and parcels left in its care, and generally to render any assistance possible...
...five upper classmen who will now on the combination eight are C. N. Comstock '30, Edward Hamlin, Jr. '29, D. R. Kroell '29, J. S. Wintringham '30, and Roger Donaldson '30. The Freshman members of this crew are Lawrence Grinnell '31, J. F. Lawrence '31. E. L. Millard '31, and Richard Kimball '31, coxswain...