Word: upperclassman
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...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...
...that he awoke to see a life-sized apparition of a 19th century officer emerge from a wall. The vision receded before the plebe could summon his roommate. The next night both saw the ghost. The story eventually reached the ears of Cadet Captain Keith Bakken. He and another upperclassman commandeered the room a few days later. The ghost promptly appeared before Bakken's confederate, but receded into the wall again. Bakken, who is still a firm nonbeliever, admitted that the designated point of evaporation, which is normally quite warm, felt icy to the touch. Later...
...Molly. In the 1920s, moreover, a priest was summoned to a house on Professors' Row to exorcise a spirit that had sent two young servant girls screaming naked into the night. To outflank the new extraterrestrial presence, Bakken has declared Room 4714 off limits until Easter. Meanwhile, one upperclassman insists that the ghost has gone. How does he know? "I am a warlock," the cadet solemnly explained...