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Since this group would soon be upperclassman and would require a place to take their meals and socialize, the University had to get up something for them. The best the deans could do was partition off part of the freshman commons and clean out some old game-rooms upstairs for them. This was something like blocking off the small dining room at the Union and airing out some of the little rooms with port-hole windows on the second floor. This scrounged combination was proclaimed with bland irony by the administration, "Wilson Lodge." (Woodrow Wilson always hated the clubs...
Code Lights & Pingpong. Inside the dormitory the new arrivals found their quarters (two men to a room). As they picked their way down the line of duffel bags, foot lockers, skis, banjos, rifles and packs, the "doolies,"* i.e., plebes, had to halt before passing an upperclassman to ask "By your leave, sir." In the well-outfitted rooms, other cadets pored over manuals, searching for instructions on where to place skivvies in the gleaming walnut dressers, where to hang battle jackets behind the handsome sliding panels of their closets. Instead of commands from a bull-voiced sergeant, they got fresh instructions...
...attract only the best people. Seventy-three graduates participate in the program. All but two of the fourteen courses currently offered, however, have undergraduate members. Nearly 30 per cent of the enrollment in these courses is undergraduate. This percentage of participation has showed little discernible difference between the bright upperclassman and the beginning graduate student. A concentrator in the department for three years who is involved in writing an honors thesis may well be of higher caliber than the first-year GSAS student...
Opening more graduate conference courses to those qualified--whether juniors or sixth year GSAS students--can help alleviate two stereotyped situations. First, the bored upperclassman, cutting lectures in his survey courses, tossing off papers the night before for an easy B; the other, the dry-as-dust graduate whose vision is narrowing to the confines of his special field. CEP changes in tutorial and course requirements allow the undergraduate more flexibility. Revisions in the Ph.D. program are directing the time of senior faculty members to graduate tutorial work. For the high-ranking student who feels his middle-group courses expendable...
Icarus Hampden-so symbolic a character that he never appears onscreen-is a Ferndale upperclassman grown disgusted with bungling adults and their clumsy efforts to avert planetary suicide. To show up his belligerent pacifist father (John Mills), Icarus organizes a Hydraheaded insurrection at Ferndale, torments the school's bedeviled head (Alastair Sim) into a hand-wringing funk, even has a detested master potted in the backside with a homemade blunderbuss. But these exploits are merely diversionary tactics to mask Icarus' Big Idea. The earthshaking plot: Icarus plans to pilot a stolen airplane to Vienna, jar the Big Four...