Word: upperclassman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...propriety of at least considering the ideas of the freshmen. If the Union were chosen as the site of the Center, it would only be fair to consider the plan's effect upon present activities there. President Minihan, recognized this need, as he appointed a freshman and an upperclassman as co-chairmen of the committee to investigate the idea...
Some, dressed in cutaway coats and bathing trunks, are dunked in swimming pools. In one ceremony, an upperclassman set a ball on a freshman's head and tried to knock it off with a hockey stick in the William Tell manner. He missed, and the victim suffered a brain concussion. An Amsterdam freshman told how 230 half-naked foetuses were jammed into a cellar and drenched with beer while upperclassmen walked on their heads; then the freshmen were forced to make their way out through a slender passageway called "the uterus...
Another unusual aspect of the new crop of freshmen is their casual bearing and extreme friendliness. Ask some upperclassman about his first three weeks at Harvard and the chances are he will tell you they were tense, scary weeks when about the only persons he knew were his roommates and boys he had met before coming to Cambridge. Not so in the Yard today. The freshmen have gotten to know each other very quickly. When asked if they feel somewhat alone and isolated, most freshman will tell you "of course not -- I've met so many exciting and interesting people...
When a "doolie," a first-year man at the U.S. Air Force Academy, is braced by an upperclassman, he sucks in his gut, throws out his chest and brays: "Sir, a doolie is that insignificant whose rank is measured in negative units, one whose potential for learning is unlimited." At meals he sits at attention and lifts his fork from plate to mouth in the rectangular movement of a robot; he shouts his response when asked a question. Until not so long ago, when entering his dormitory, he had to rasp in intercom fashion: "Sir, Air Force Academy jet 201K...
...Academy began all this business six years ago by grafting its own lingo on a century-old tradition at West Point and Annapolis. It is not quite hazing; an upperclassman has to ask a doolie's permission to touch him, even to straighten his tie. But if the official term for the custom is only "harassment," it still licenses upperclassmen to make life miserable for new men on the theory that "weak sisters" will quit...