Word: upperclassman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dean Griffin describes the ordinary Yale student as "a quite straightforward, cheerful type of person." An upperclassman who leans more toward the abnormality theory of life at Yale puts it differently: "Your average Joe Blow student fucks around in the library for four hours pretending to study and then goes to a bar and gets drunk...
...beneficial in both directions in providing perspective on one's college education and on life in general. If I had less respect for the privacy of my friends, I would quote specific examples of advice which I, as a freshman, received from upperclassmen and have since, as an upperclassman, been able to pass on to freshmen (and other upperclassmen). Such advice has been academic, extra-curricular, and personal. And, I might add, much of it, having been based on prior college experience, could not have been given to me by another freshman...
...football, basketball, baseball, wrestling and track and wasn't any good at any of them." Giving in to the inevitable, he took up golf in earnest and "went from being a straight A student to a straight C." As a freshman at Ohio State he caddied for Upperclassman Jack Nicklaus, then the young master of amateur golf. Impressed by Nicklaus' exploits, Weiskopf quit after his sophomore year to become a "successful college dropout...
...during my freshman year, I asked an upperclassman why Harvard seemed to provide so little help for people who wanted to live and study off campus. "Harvard doesn't send people into the world," he said, "because Harvard thinks it is the world...
Despite the cynical remark of the upperclassman I quoted earlier, Harvard's attitude also seems to be shifting towards greater emphasis on off-campus learning. Francis D. Fisher '47, director of the recently-created Office for Career Services and Off-Campus Learning, said he is "very much aware" of the activities of E4A and that he spoke at length to Judith Newman, former E4A project director, about the organization's activities and the opportunities it makes available for students...