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Leaning out into the dark dormitory hallway at Britain's most celebrated public (i.e., private) school, an 18-year-old senior, dressed in the school's uniform of pinstripe trousers and morning coat, yells loudly: "Boy, up!" Before the echoes can die away, ten lowerclassmen, aged 12 and 13, scramble up the stairwell, tails flapping. Inevitably, one boy arrives last. His punishment: a trip to the store to buy an egg for the senior...
...girls will quietly shake their heads over the change, like the four lowerclassmen who wrote in to the Sophian, "With the loss of Interim, Smith has become just another good school." But nearly everyone will slowly being to agree to his own culpability. "The abuses of Interim have been flagrant," write the Sophian editors. "Unfortunately you can't run a College forever on an ideal if it only benefits a minority...
...basketball coach. Many players believe that Wilson is a negative force which must be overcome if they are to have a good team. Several players each year either quit the team or do not return the next season because of the coach. Wilson's extraordinarily poor reputation among lowerclassmen discourages countless others from even attempting to make the squad...
...become a summer activity, and you're just practicing up early (best wait until Thanksgiving for this). List all those living in dormitories not also housing 'Cliffies you have previously outraged or engaged. (This will yield a list of manageable size only for juniors and seniors, or precocious lowerclassmen.) Or list all those living in the dormitory your sister or sister's girlfriend (who may be freely invented) lived in. You're calling for old-times' sake, or the family tradition. The possibilities are nearly endless, and if any list is too long, ancillary conditions, such as looks (which never...
...from awards given in the Middle Ages for the reading of theses or discourses. At present, however, a number of Harvard graduates get honors degrees without writing theses, through the program of Cum Laude in General Studies. While CLGS is often used to allow people with low marks as lowerclassmen to write theses, it also allows people with high marks to avoid this particular intellectual exercise. Given the original nature of honors, it seems a distortion to give them to people who do not write theses in fields in which they are at all practicable...