Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Herb Wakabavashi, Serge Boily, Mickey Gray, and Eddie Wright, B.U. boasts the most dangerous group of juniors outside of Ithaca, and the Terriers' sophomore line includes two of the East's top five scorers, Mike Hyndman and Larry Davenport...
SOPHOMORE YEAR it was a little different. I had proved I could make it as far as grades went--I had been group III. I went into a House that was supposed to be a community. There was supposedly more of an interest in people, more of a common cooperative effort. So I expected . . . Since there was supposed to be a community, I was tempted to be part of it; but I didn't find much of a community...
During lunch break, since our classes were made up according to ability, I always hung around with the smart kids, but since the smarter kinds always tended to be middle class, there was only partial identification with the group. We had a common language, but different values. The group I belonged to was more of a debating society than a friendship group...
...concern wasn't still so much on getting the education or getting the humanistic values or even ever having them; it was just on getting the grades and getting special training, getting into grad school and getting to be a big shot back home in the accepted social group...
...REASON I'm leaving is because I have less expensive tastes. I don't have to have the middle class money status and position to get by in life. I can afford not to go to college. I can feel more comfortable with a group of working class people than a group of highly-motivated kids from New York...