Word: upperclassman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advising for freshmen, and upperclass tutoring for freshmen in academic trouble. Upperclass advising has been tried twice before, and has always collapsed through lack of interest on both sides. Under the tutoring program, as envisioned in the committee report, "a freshman worried about a particular examination would contact . . . and upperclassman. . . (who) will then meet with the freshman and discuss with him problems of the course, e.g. the principal ideas of the course. . . etc." This could easily degenerate into official and organized note-cribbing, and would be an in unnecessary addition to the present study ad program at the College...
Look around you. If you see an upperclassman who has a well-fed, rested look, chances are he's from Adams...
...upperclassmen will be able to enter the R.O.T.C. unless higher authorities grant individual dispensations, Summerall said. Army regulations forbid students to take more than one Military Science course in the same year--which would be necessary for an upperclassman to earn a commission by graduation...
Mory's is still a private club, and about as private as the men's room in Grand Central. Almost any upperclassman can join, by countersigning two friends who are members and waiting until his application blank acquires the proper degree of mustiness...
Basic dormitory regulations--as set down in a little purple manual referred to as the "joke book"--state that the Holy Cross upperclassman must be in for the night by 7:30 p.m. on weekdays, 11:45 p.m. on Saturdays, and 11 p.m. on Sundays. For freshmen these times are moved up approximately an hour. A monitoring system of corridor prefects checks up on obedience to these rules with more or less conscientiousness...