Word: upperclassman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard senior who only associates Robespierre with a popular rock band on campus is hardly an educated individual, and an upperclassman who can't integrate a function is hardly differentiable from a sophisticated high school graduate. This inconsistency between the expectations of a Harvard student and reality stems from an insufficient advising system and a Core Curriculum which does not make enough demands on students...
...upperclassmen were dating their freshman advisees, and the Freshman Dean's Office quietly reassigned one upperclassman to a different prefect unit and asked another to resign...
...ROMANTIC INCIDENTS involving the new freshman prefect program have occurred this fall. In one, the upperclassman assigned to a group of freshmen as an advisor was not present at the only orientation session for prefects, held at 7:30 a.m. on the first Saturday of Freshmen Week. He was reassigned to another group after the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) learned of the affair. In the other, the upperclassman voluntarily resigned, also after the FDO learned of his involvement. These two incidents, while not particularly damaging to the concept underlying the program, do draw attention to flaws in both...
However, one upperclassman was not as lucky. "One of my roommates was really nice, but she could go into a room I had just cleaned and in ten minutes it was demolished...
Born in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Ervin was the son of a relentlessly upright lawyer. Young Sam was funny, and popular. An upperclassman at the University of North Carolina when Thomas Wolfe arrived at Chapel Hill, Ervin was the sort Wolfe later wrote about, the BMOCs who "talked--always they talked, under the trees, against the ivied walls, assembled in their rooms . . . with a large, easy fluency about God, the Devil, and philosophy, the girls, politics...