Word: upperclassman
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...eyebrows still snap at references to the arbitrary plan of placement. "We mustn't have the authorities shunt men about. The Houses will be driven to uniformity." Eliot House seniors steeped in the Finley tradition of taste and style are equally opposed to random selection. Says one Eliot House upperclassman of the sophomores admitted under the new system, "You can see a certain sloppiness now in the dining hall. You know, the Winthrop House High School Harry type...
...cent. Gone are the interminable handson-heels "duck walks" that once sent Douglas MacArthur to a hospital. Forbidden, too, are such hazing tortures as "shower formation," in which plebes braced at attention until perspiration soaked their bathrobes. Instead of requiring the traditional gibberish reply to the upperclassman's question, "How is the cow?"* a plebe may be ordered at dinner to deliver a ten-minute lecture on Viet...
...junior Jeff Grate (6 ft. 1 in.), Harvard has an impressive backcourt, but there is no one up front to be a leader. When a team falls behind in a game, inexperienced players might tend to start shooting more, and lose control of the tempo of the game. An upperclassman who has been through the Ivy grind would certainly help...
...prospect of getting and early introduction to the Houses through an upperclassman advisor appeals to many freshmen who say they feel that living in the Yard "cuts us off from the main stream of college life...
Freshman advisors echoed many of to select an upperclassman advisor from favoring the HUC's first proposal. Senior advisors Christopher Wadsworth '62, Seamus P. Malin '62, and James E. Thomas agreed that upperclassmen can and already do perform valuable advising functions. They said that they already refer a number of specific advising problems to undergraduates they know in the Houses...