Word: underclassman
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...College Bestiary" should be a vade mecum for every underclassman. It is an accumulation of wisdom, sorted, labelled, illuminated, and, best of all, tucked away in an idiom that by its vigor and raciness will disarm even those who would like to shoot a preacher at sight. Wherever there is a saving grace of ambition in a student; these "characters" of college types and their glosses will be useful...
...treated him with consideration. In those days the Freshman was rarely asked to Boston dances, and when thus allowed to mingle with older men he knew how to keep in the background. So far, this year's extra hospitality has been misspent for, instead of appreciating such kindness, the underclassman has taken the attitude that no activity, college or social, can exist without him. And so, haughty and proud of his supposed fame, like the "rah-rah boy" posters, pipe in mouth, he struts through the Yard sometimes even condescending to answer the greeting of the upperclassman. To say that...
...requirements for membership, printed elsewhere, is not a call for candidates; it is merely an out line of a society for which men of the right sort do not have to be called out. Nevertheless, Phi Beta Kappa is worthy of the most serious thought of every underclassman. In thinking of it each man should remember that of all undergraduate honors the only one that increases with time is election to an honorary society of scholars...