Word: upperclassman
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...does not look in vain. For all during the Fourth Class Year, from the minute he enters until the last company has passed in review at Graduation Parade, the Plebe hears the old cry, "You man!" I still have a tendency to stop when I hear some upperclassman call in this fashion...
...various and sundry things the Plebe must do but there is little of the old system of hazing left. We mean physical hazing. "Mental hazing" by means of trick questions is done, but even this is not considered hazing for it is done in the spirit of fun. No upperclassman will ever touch a Plebe. It just isn't done, as it was twenty or thirty years...
...reef that was once visible has not been wholly blasted away. It is merely submerged, and even an upperclassman can easily be wrecked on its unseen ledges. For deep in the "Rules and Regulations of College Studies" is tucked the innocent little statement that the Administrative Board can put a student on probation at any time "in exceptional circumstances." Failure at November does not automatically make an upperclassman, as it does a Freshman, a subject of disciplinary action: but the bad failures at November are inappropriately called "exceptional," and retribution follows. Often it comes as a surprise. The Sophomore...
...requiring the freshman to study English composition, a course which has been demanded of him from the day he learned to read. It is ridiculous to expect the high school to reach such a polity that it could train a high school student in the work of a college upperclassman...
...upperclassman is doomed to comparative insignificance it is because he welcomes it, being glad to sink into his surroundings and show that he belongs there. He is in good company, and once the usual questions have been exchanged about the vacation just over, the ground is cleared. The year begins quietly. It comes in like a lamb...