Word: classmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...October, Pledge Soik was thoroughly fed up with "assuming the position" to be paddled, with being waked up at 3 a.m. for more of the same, with being especially singled out for hazing because he laughed at upper classmen's high jinks as juvenile mumbo-jumbo. He turned in his pledge pin, asked Dean Scott Goodnight for assignment to a dormitory room. The Dean questioned him closely, found that his fraternity elders had not only paddled him 27 times, but had made him bake himself at the fraternity hearth...
...long last we have learned the delights of inventory control, first encountered at mid-term. The pace quickens as weary classmen are spurred ahead with the end in sight. Most of us just hit "Thirty-seven more days to go--unk!" with more stress, but Tommy Donovan took things in hand by taking Nancy-- the Foreign Resources grader, blond with freckles known previously only to Kallaus and Trudeau out for a whirl at the Totem Pole...
Photography of individual class members is being done by the Sargent Studies at 154 Boylston Street and the '45 classmen are urged to have their pictures made before the October examinations...
...over the hump. Starting next month, they can expand the course to 17 weeks as the need for new officers slackens (TIME, April 26). This week T.I.S. will have its first formal inspection by Lieut. General Lesley McNair, head of the Army Ground Forces. Among the sights: 239 first classmen from West Point, 90 officers of the newly activated 42nd ("Rainbow") Division taking refresher courses...
Wigglesworth, Weld, and Grays Halls will house the majority of today's registrants, with Farlow and Walker Houses also serving a number. '46 students who were admitted later then the rest of their classmen have been assigned to Claverly and Dudley Halls...