Word: upperclassman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...student has been welcomed, officially and academically. He has been told, formally and informally, "when" and "where" and if he is a Freshman "how". The old student, astute upperclassman, that he is, full of the wisdom begotten by experience, is beginning to be seen about the Yard,--now that the hand-shaking is over. . The college is settling into its stride...
...Freshman who was not marked out from his fellows by any extraordinary greenness of appearance and who might readily have been taken for an upperclassman if he had been satisfied to ask no questions, came walking up with a friend. As he drew near the scrimmaging teams he turned inquisitively to his companion. In a very loud and carrying voice he asked, "And which is Harvard...
...recent address by Dr. Leroy Burton, president of the University of Michigan. The impossibility of any self-determination in the matter of curricula prevents the student with initiative and capable faculties reaching the intellectual heights he might attain if given free reign. Dr. Burton would give the upperclassman freedom from the group course restrictions and would allow him to follow the dictates of his own enthusiasm...
...Lafayette, Freshmen are permitted to smoke only corn-cob pipes. Should an upperclassman call "Hit it up!" Freshmen in the vicinity must run with their small red caps in their mouths, and their hands stretched over their heads...
...freshmen should not deduce from this, however, that their victories are not required while the University teams are successful. Rather should they know that the upperclassman feels a really supreme, solid contentment only when the deeds of the freshmen emulate the powers of the varsity or even exceed it. Without disputing that profound statement about the child being father to the man, one might safely advance the theory that the freshmen team is father to the varsity strange as that sounds and while exceptions have been noted, consistently, good freshmen teams usually guarantee consistently good varsity teams...