Word: upperclass
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...teams continually depend on sophomores, then upperclass athletes have been fading away. There are always individuals like track captain Tony Lynch and seven-foot high-jumper Chris Pardee who improve each year, but there are also many more athletes who taper off after their freshman or sophomore season...
...this juncture the stolid Geistgauge sounded a small ding of pleasure. There was, so as it knew -- and it is all wise--no vairy whatsoever, recorded or otherwise traditional or recent, between Stough and Holworthy. There was, in fact, rivalry between any two Freshman dorms, or any two upperclass House. The Freshman's comment was therefore at the highest pitch of spontaneity...
...upperclass grades in courses marked "regularly open to freshmen" have normally been reported. But the Faculty decided earlier this Spring to abolish the freshman-course category completely...
Ambassador Thai also denied James Reston's report of last summer that the peasantry consider their rulers in Saigon "as merely the successors of the French colonial regime, with the upperclass urban Vietnamese replacing the French." "That's not true any more," he said, while accepting a cigarette "Merci...
...there is no guarantee that those who write letters will automatically have substantial reasons, because there has been no attempt to give freshmen guidelines in determining how worthy their reasons are. Which student has a substantial reason--the freshman with upperclass friends in Quincy House or only the handicapped freshman who needs Quincy's elevators? A freshman with a half-dozen reasons for requesting one House may, think they are not good enough for the Committee, while another may write a letter simply because he likes the fried chicken served in the House dining hall...