Word: upperclass
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...used his energy in other ways, assuming the social and intramural mantles for his freshman and upperclass dorms, becoming an All-Ivy athlete in an unfamiliar sport, refereeing some 1000 intramural basketball games, and making plans to marry his high school sweetheart later this month...
Harvard should not adopt the Yale system in which freshmen are assigned to their upperclass Colleges even before they reach new Haven; Harvard is different from Yale and should have a different type of random system. Freshmen should still be able to pick their roommates and blockmates in March. But these groups would be randomly assigned to the Houses, although the sex ratio would be maintained. There are many advantages to such a system. A freshmen would continue to be exposed to all his or her classmates during the year and could still pick roommates from the whole class...
...Undergraduate Council's referendum on the housing lottery, to be conducted in dining halls next Wednesday through Friday, should gauge for the first time how strongly students feel about the background of their upperclass neighbors. Though the vote is nonbindinding on the College, official have said they will follow the results "with interest...
...blood drive did not reach to projected total despite beefed up efforts this year to stimulate a spirit of competition between upperclass houses and students of Harvard and Yale...
Admittedly, the play does intermittently descend into a maudlin sort of melancholia, aggravated by its overtly economic swipes on upperclass values. It isn't enough, for instance, for Jean to tell Julie that "love is a game we [the servants] play when we get time off front work;" he has to reiterate it to Kristine to the audience, and to himself. These, however, are faults of the playwright, not the cast, and encumbrances which the actors manage to handle well. Norris is particularly careful to keep his monologues from turning into didactic speeches, so that the characters dominate the themes...