Word: upperclassman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does not look in vain. For all during the Fourth Class Year, from the minute he enters until the last company has passed in review at Graduation Parade, the Plebe hears the old cry, "You man!" I still have a tendency to stop when I hear some upperclassman call in this fashion...
...various and sundry things the Plebe must do but there is little of the old system of hazing left. We mean physical hazing. "Mental hazing" by means of trick questions is done, but even this is not considered hazing for it is done in the spirit of fun. No upperclassman will ever touch a Plebe. It just isn't done, as it was twenty or thirty years...
This is a great boon to Plebe life, this individual recognition, for it usually means that the Plebe is taken under the wing of some upperclassman who helps him out of difficulties and gives him advice. When the Plebe "goes deficient"--is below average--in academics, he usually goes to his predecessor, a man from the same town or district, and gets coaching or council on what...
...perimeter of a circle of radius seven inches, whose center is at the center of his plate; and he must see that all of the upperclassmen at his table are properly supplied with food. In barracks a plebe always removes his hat before entering the room of an upperclassman. He is restricted from using "Diagonal Walk," a shortcut across the main parade, and also from walking on "Flirtation Walk...
...reef that was once visible has not been wholly blasted away. It is merely submerged, and even an upperclassman can easily be wrecked on its unseen ledges. For deep in the "Rules and Regulations of College Studies" is tucked the innocent little statement that the Administrative Board can put a student on probation at any time "in exceptional circumstances." Failure at November does not automatically make an upperclassman, as it does a Freshman, a subject of disciplinary action: but the bad failures at November are inappropriately called "exceptional," and retribution follows. Often it comes as a surprise. The Sophomore...