Word: upperclassman
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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...
...roommates, demanding to know who's been writing his number in the bathrooms, at Logan Airport. Then, he will rush to the windows and look around the Yard to see if anyone if standing outside staring up at him, "Halloween" style. Only when he mentions the proposition to an upperclassman, or accuses him of making it, does he learn that he has experienced one of Harvard's most venerated and time-honored institutions--the Action...
When dealing with the choice vs. diversity issues one very interesting point presents itself in the staristies students were asked to rate the two options, one of which was hypothetical and intangible (i.e, the modified random system) and another which every upperclassman had experienced (i.e, the present system). Thus one rating was air academic assessment based on thought alone while the other was primarily the product of personal experience...
Junior Collins, who was the only upperclassman on the court for much of the game, was equally lavish with her praise. "Our new personal is just awesome," she said...
...LONDON. Conn.--In 1930--maybe it was 1929--the Harvard combination freshman-upperclassman crew led Yale by six boat-lengths when the stroke, the person whose timing everyone else in the boat was following, collapsed in his seat...