Word: freshman-year
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...eight years, there was a great deal of "favoritism" in the assignments to popular Colleges. If a student had a relative who had been in a College, either as a faculty associate or an undergraduate, the Master felt "morally obligated" to admit him. Even such adventitious contact as a freshman-year job in a College dining hall could guarantee a suite in the same College 12 months later. Also, "the Masters had friends and classmates who would put pressure on them to admit certain students." In short, despite the appearance of a free choice, "the system had no real integrity...
...your life in the society of those ladies, went to college with an idea that a man who had ever succumbed to the influence of liquor deserved to be excluded from the society of civilized Christians. I am also familiar enough with the phenomena of the beginning of a Freshman-year, to understand that you have probably been invited already to about a dozen punches, from which many of your classmates had to be carried home to bed. Many of these men, too, are probably agreeable, well-bred fellows, who in their sober moments bear no more resemblance...