Word: upperclassmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With all last year's players returning, and with four star Freshmen poloists as well as six or eight upperclassmen who did not come out for the team last year, indications point to a strong team, and Captain Clark is looking forward to having a team of championship calibre...
When asked why the rule had been made only for upperclassmen, and not for Freshmen, Dean Briggs said. "As I understand in Freshmen are watched more closely, and warning may be given them before the examinations, and also it is more important that Freshmen should know their standing early...
Freshmen may wonder that they were not granted the same consideration as upperclassmen, since they, more than any others, find it difficult to adjust themselves to the requirements of their college studies. But their case is different. So great is the change from secondary school to college that many Freshmen are left hopelessly adrift and need to have their difficulties brought early to the notice of the authorities and themselves...
Almost 100 of the upperclassmen found it impossible to arrange for laboratory work at the hours available, and therefore members of the class of 1928 who desire to do so may make application to Dr. J. A. Dawson, Instructor of Zoology in the University...
...beginning of the college year, in the opinion of all those whose temporary business is collecting money, marks an open season on the wallets of new and returning undergraduates. One is stopped on street corners with frantic appeals to subscribe to this and that periodical. Upperclassmen are halted by young and inexperienced canvassers and besought to lend financial support to institutions of which they themselves are officers. Elderly and nervous professors retire quivering within doors to turn out another chapter of The Great American Textbook. Even the President and Fellows take their walks abroad with their coats but toned...