Word: underclassmen
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...columns were headed: Confidential Guide of College Courses. The editors had had the temerity to assess the curriculum from a student point of view, to give underclassmen (especially freshmen) the benefit of upper-classmen's experience, even to criticize professorial abilities in direct, humorous and detailed fashion...
...Seniors have felt a certain proprietary interest in it all year, but their claim has not been absolute by any means. Professors, denizens of Radcliffe, and the whole populace of Cambridge-beyond-the-walls have made free with the walks as though they were public thorough-fares, and underclassmen have felt perfectly at home there. But tonight the cap and gown will be the only recognized uniform, and for once the Senior will be monarch of all he surveys...
...have precipitated but did not constitute the necessity for the rulings of the Committee. What did make it seem highly advisable to remove the emphasis which has hitherto been placed on football was the fact that that emphasis, attracting as it did so much of the attention of the underclassmen, was misplaced, and contributed to the neglect of that for which students sometimes come to Harvard...
...Gentleman's Easter. A month ago his sisters and his cousins and his aunts blossomed forth in the newest creations of millinery. Two weeks later, solemn Seniors donned the strange headgear known unaccountably as mortar-boards, and appeared in the Yard with a dignity that was the envy of underclassmen. Today more man is to have his turn, and he prays for the sunshine as eagerly as a Senior on the day of the Picnic. For today, by common consent and the decree of Harvard Square Haberdashery, Inc., is Straw...
...university officials have decided to allow the exercises to be held, but have ordered, the campus closed to the public and will make the "tapping" a purely Yale family affair. Not even the underclassmen will be supposed to be present...