Word: upperclassman
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...contrast to the advent of the Freshman, the upperclassman arrives in Cambridge officially unnoticed. He has put aside the buoymant brightness of the youths who, making their college debut, are full of hope for the four golden years. He betrays no interest in the novelty of his surroundings. He has long outgrown the state of credulity that indicates inward illusions and is peculiarly attractive to book-agents and purveyors of pressing contracts. The upperclassmen returning passes through the Square unremarked. He belongs in it, for another year at least, like the Pill...
...incoming Freshman class has for a number of years been under the official guidance of the Student Council until the election of Freshman officers, and the Student Council has been accustomed to entrust this guidance to some prominent and properly qualified upperclassman. The latter's chief duties are connected with the holding of dormitory and class elections, the affairs of the class demanding executive attention being few in the first half of the year. The dormitory committees, elected two or three weeks before the end of the football season, will help French in taking care of Freshman affairs until...
...upperclassman, bereft of the system which bound him to his firstyear mates, wonders where the Handbook has disappeared, and why its use is restricted to Freshman. For a time he misses it-he is at a loss to discover the final date for this, the opening date for that, the time of the next rapprochement of the Harvard Dames, and many interesting minutiae which fill the pages of the book. But there is no Sophomore Bible and eventually comes the realization that the Phillips Brooks House has rendered to Freshmen the things that are Freshmen's and who-soever shall...
...planning of their college curriculum. From 12 to 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the members of the student advisory committee will be in session in the four Freshman Halls available for conference to the men assigned to them. Any Freshman who has not regularly been assigned to an upperclassman, should apply for an advisor at that time...
...will assert its supremacy over the field of Economics. The grievances of the deceived amateur will need airing; it will be learned that instead of the Saturday Post for tutorial reading, he will be obliged to read Bacon's "Novum Organum" or write on the Restoration Drama. As an upperclassman he will arouse from his dilemma; and his convictions will attest that native ability is foreign as an aid in meeting the requirements of the "Generals". Sumner Moskovitz...