Word: upperclass
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During the winter the unit is briefed indoors on the essentials of the Air Force's mission, its customs, career opportunities, and graduate study programs. The briefing task is shared by the detachment's three officer instructors, upperclass cadets, and by guest lecturers ranging from fighter pilots to Henry A. Kissinger, professor of Government...
Several members of the Council pointed out that few freshmen could attend these House functions; that the Friday-night concert, a major feature of Jubilee Weekend, conflicted with no House functions and actually afforded upperclassmen a place to take their dates, and that upperclass presence at this concert would help finance the Jubilee Weekend...
...spend time listening to conversations in the Freshman Union, and then come into an upperclass house -- even one with an "intellectual" reputation -- you are likely to be struck by this difference: the upperclassmen have largely given up trying to communicate across the borders of their own areas of specialty, when they try to communicate seriously at all. The upperclassmen have learned that the College does not, in practice, support their attempts at catholicity. The freshmen have not learned...
...women's college.) The committee's ideal was that someday someone would give Yale enough money to tear down existing freshman dormitories and build three or four new Colleges in their place. Until this goal can be achieved, a block of several freshman entries has been affiliated with each upperclass College; freshmen from these entries can attend College dances, play on College athletic teams, and eat a reasonable number of meals each week in the College dining halls. In general, the freshmen are expected to pick their future roommates from students heading for the same College, but if acquaintances affiliated...
...effect, the committee lessened the separation between freshman and upperclass education. It noted that because of the increasing quality of the country's secondary schools, freshmen-whether "separated" or not-were taking courses at all levels of the university. The committee decided that "the student in his first year at Yale should feel immediately that his maturity is acknowledged and that he is an active member of a great intellectual enterprise...