Word: upperclassmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aware of their own goals and the social opportunities, then the shock comes. A Lesley girls meets a Harvard man, tells him where she goes to school and he says, in the words of one of the girls, "Oh my God, a school teacher -- Ding Dong School." Soon Lesley upperclassmen clue the new girls in to the fact that Harvard men have pretty strange notions about Lesley girls...
Whatever the causes of the reduction in service, it makes very little sense to cut the freshman off entirely, while continuing to play maid to the upperclassmen. Only one year removed from the well-inspected rooms of home or prep-school, the youngest class is the least experienced in "keeping house" and the least likely to take advantage of the self-service offer. Instead of cleaning freshman toilet bowls more frequently--three times a week now, as compared with once a week previously the caretaking services might worry about the piles of debris collecting on the floors...
Resuming vacuuming service in their rooms would probably mean a further reduction for the upperclassmen--from once every two weeks, say, to once every two and a half. But the difference for the Houses would only be marginal. The total amount of University dirt, to put the matter in terms the bureaucrats will understand, would be dramatically reduced. At the very least, the freshman would be required to pick up the old newspapers, clothes, and towels now scattered around the rooms to let the vacuumers get at the dust underneath...
...second round will be played Monday. All upperclassmen except varsity numeral winners are eligible...
...vacuums for freshmen use will be in the offices of the custodians in charge of the Yard's five freshman divisions. It is not known whether upperclassmen will be allowed to use them to make up for the weeks they will be missing vacuum service...