Word: classmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard men expect them to know what "catching a crab" means, and that at Dartmouth there are only three seasons: before, during and after winter. For girls on their way to Annapolis or West Point, Weekend gives full details on military protocol, and how to distinguish cadet first classmen by the stripes on their sleeves from the lowlier "cows" or "yearlings" (at the Point "You walk everywhere, spend your own money, and half the time you're not with your escort...
...those who board in, the Milton school day starts at 7 a.m., when "yellers" run down the halls acting as human alarm clocks. Smoking is forbidden except for first-classmen (seniors), parents are advised to keep weekly pocket allowances to 75?, and there is a compulsory Saturday sewing-hour for Milton girls. Unlike many New England prep schools, Milton has no required religion courses. But Headmaster Arthur Bliss Perry, 49, son of Harvard's famed scholar Bliss Perry, and a Milton teacher since 1921, tries to impress on his well-bred boys & girls "the obligation of the unenforceable...
...There is no priority set-up" on filling the House vacancies, Dean Watson said yesterday. Returnees who resided in Houses before their absences, upper-classmen who spent the fall term in the Yard, Claverly and Dudley, and some commuters will plug the 173 gaps in the seven Houses...
Family background, in the very broadest sense of the word, shaped his first year hear. This, in combination with his section of the country, his type of community, his school, and myriad other factors made it inevitable that these fellow classmen, rather than those, should be his companions. During his upper class years the undergraduate may broaden his field of friends, or he may narrow it-this is up to the individual...
Weld emphasized that "this is the Committee that will run affairs for the next 50 years," stressing that the great responsibilities and permanency of the committee make it particularly important that '48 classmen choose able leaders...