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...years before the war, close to 1500 students, all upper-classmen, participated in the House athletic events. House teams battled in twenty-five different sports; graduate mentors coached the squads; professional officials refereed many of the games...
...Juniors and Seniors are excused from exercise because they presumably are physically mature, academically busy, and socially adjusted. Veterans are in equally good shape, and their academic burdens, after several years' absence from lectures and blue books, are fully as great as those of upper classmen, sliding along smoothly in their scholastic grooves. All that remains, then, is the misassumption that veterans, like non-veteran Freshmen, need an added stimulus to find recreation and meet people. Months of community living have removed all vestiges of the hermit instinct from most ex-service men. They know how to go about meeting...
...Harvard Freshman ever sat down to dinner with a group of upper-classmen and left the table without hearing a flood of off-purple nostalgia concerning some Golden Age known as "the good old days...
...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...