Word: upperclassman
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...House community. “Quincy became a kind of melting pot for everything that was true of young men at Harvard,” said Field. At a time when assignments to Houses resembled a “second Harvard admissions process,” Gordon said, each upperclassman residence was associated with a unique characteristic.Specifically, undergraduates in Adams were known for being artistic, while Eliot was referred to as the preppy House. To rival these deeply-rooted House personalities, Quincy quickly formed its own individual House character. Quincy’s newness contributed to “more...
...well as anyone else on the team. He can do it all.” “It’s a meritocracy,” Jones says. “If you can get on the court, the seniors will treat you like an upperclassman.”But that doesn’t mean Jones hasn’t been playing the role of freshman. Always humble and ready to learn, Jones listens whenever an upperclassman or coach has advice to give. “Erik [Kuld] helped me out earlier this year,” Jones...
...said that while sitting at his typewriter in his magazine-strewn room, Sunstein refused, declaring, “too much play and too little work makes Cass a dull boy.”According to McArdle, such occurrences were common, especially during Sunstein’s years as an upperclassman when he decided to focus on writing. “He had this weird thing where he’d be hunched over the typewriter kind of like Glenn Gould over the piano,” says McArdle. “He’d type with one finger...
...upperclassman, West has taken his game up another notch, managing to top his start of four straight 3-0 match victories last season with a current streak...
...outlet of her freshman seminar.Naddaff recalls the excitement of delving into a discussion on Virgil with Zeph Stewart, the legendary Harvard classics professor and former Lowell House master, while his wife would serve tea out of a silver teapot. Naddaff’s freshman seminar brought her into the upperclassman House at a time when women still lived in the Radcliffe Quadrangle.Today, over 30 years later, the small-group experience of a freshman seminar still stands in stark contrast to first-year schedules otherwise inundated with large introductory lecture courses in a crowded Sanders Theatre or the Science Center.Now...