Word: underclassmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...social service, nor does he desire to be considered as such. But what is more to the point, in providing facilities for commuters, Phillips Brooks has lost its identification, both in reputation and actual practice with the social work it was intended to perform. In the eyes of resident underclassmen, P.B.H. has come to be looked on as a self-sufficient commuters unit, comparable to a House, and, hence, an organization with which they can have no proper connection except as a competitor. Settlement work, child welfare, boy guidance, all the proper functions of Phillips, have been so subordinated...
...assume that the peregrine students are underclassmen. If they have been longer under the nurturing, exigent shadows of Oxford and Cambridge, these venerable institutions, of course, owe the world an apology...
First displayed by peg-trousered underclassmen at the Stanford-California game of 1898, the token was paraded under California noses accompanied loudly by the contemporary byword: "Give 'em the axe!" A group of muscular Californians, incensed, wrested the axe from Stanford, bore it away to Berkeley where, for the past 31 years, it has remained. The annual California axe rally has been a thorn in Stanford's suntanned side...
...selection of friends and associates. Through the agency of resident masters and fellows, the undergraduate will be brought into social contact with faculty members, thereby lessening that breach between the two groups which is still widely decried by critics of our educational system. Contacts between upperclassmen and underclassmen will also be facilitated. Incidentally, the new system will make possible a shift of emphasis from intercollegiate athletics to intra-mural sport...