Word: upperclassman
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...recent address by Dr. Leroy Burton, president of the University of Michigan. The impossibility of any self-determination in the matter of curricula prevents the student with initiative and capable faculties reaching the intellectual heights he might attain if given free reign. Dr. Burton would give the upperclassman freedom from the group course restrictions and would allow him to follow the dictates of his own enthusiasm...
...Lafayette, Freshmen are permitted to smoke only corn-cob pipes. Should an upperclassman call "Hit it up!" Freshmen in the vicinity must run with their small red caps in their mouths, and their hands stretched over their heads...
...freshmen should not deduce from this, however, that their victories are not required while the University teams are successful. Rather should they know that the upperclassman feels a really supreme, solid contentment only when the deeds of the freshmen emulate the powers of the varsity or even exceed it. Without disputing that profound statement about the child being father to the man, one might safely advance the theory that the freshmen team is father to the varsity strange as that sounds and while exceptions have been noted, consistently, good freshmen teams usually guarantee consistently good varsity teams...
...center for ten of the religious societies. As an organized Information Bureau it helps several hundred men to find rooms, and answers any questions puzzling the new students. At the beginning of the year, it sees that every man in the Freshman class is visited by some upperclassman to aid him in getting to 'know the ropes...
...Freshman coming to Harvard for the first time this year, the machinery of the College and University government under which he is now living is a profound mystery. Even the average upperclassman does not realize that in University Hall several changes have been inaugurated. To many men not only the innovations but even the fundamentals of College administration are entirely unfamiliar...