Word: upperclassman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...requiring the freshman to study English composition, a course which has been demanded of him from the day he learned to read. It is ridiculous to expect the high school to reach such a polity that it could train a high school student in the work of a college upperclassman...
...contrast to the advent of the Freshman, the upperclassman arrives in Cambridge officially unnoticed. He has put aside the buoymant brightness of the youths who, making their college debut, are full of hope for the four golden years. He betrays no interest in the novelty of his surroundings. He has long outgrown the state of credulity that indicates inward illusions and is peculiarly attractive to book-agents and purveyors of pressing contracts. The upperclassmen returning passes through the Square unremarked. He belongs in it, for another year at least, like the Pill...
...upperclassman is doomed to comparative insignificance it is because he welcomes it, being glad to sink into his surroundings and show that he belongs there. He is in good company, and once the usual questions have been exchanged about the vacation just over, the ground is cleared. The year begins quietly. It comes in like a lamb...
...incoming Freshman class has for a number of years been under the official guidance of the Student Council until the election of Freshman officers, and the Student Council has been accustomed to entrust this guidance to some prominent and properly qualified upperclassman. The latter's chief duties are connected with the holding of dormitory and class elections, the affairs of the class demanding executive attention being few in the first half of the year. The dormitory committees, elected two or three weeks before the end of the football season, will help French in taking care of Freshman affairs until...
...upperclassman, bereft of the system which bound him to his firstyear mates, wonders where the Handbook has disappeared, and why its use is restricted to Freshman. For a time he misses it-he is at a loss to discover the final date for this, the opening date for that, the time of the next rapprochement of the Harvard Dames, and many interesting minutiae which fill the pages of the book. But there is no Sophomore Bible and eventually comes the realization that the Phillips Brooks House has rendered to Freshmen the things that are Freshmen's and who-soever shall...