Word: upperclassmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present, the program's most urgent problem is what to do with the unexpectedly large number of upperclassmen who have applied to the new middle group expository writing courses...
...hundred freshmen automatically qualify for the five courses, said Roger Rosenblatt, acting director of expository writing, but 40 upperclassmen have also made application...
...Upperclassmen clamoring to get into our writing courses is quite a change in the climate of opinion," said Wilcox. He called the response to the new courses "sensational...
Other upper-classmen waited to make that kind of sale with their minds newly stocked with wonderfully voweled names like Penelope, Delia, Venessa, Deborah, and Irene and pages of snap-shot-size visions of the prime side of a secondary aspect. Sometimes the upperclassmen were smiled at skittishly and sometimes they were given genteel laughs from deep in the throat; sometimes they heard the patently private, as when a girl with small shoulders and slight hips told a friend whose nails were dirty: "The only reason my family needs to love me is that I'm alive...
...College is now facing its worst housing shortage since the post-war years. The facts, as of last week, were these: nearly 75 upperclassmen, who wanted to live in the Houses, were without rooms; many students returning to College after time away were being forced to find accommodations off-campus; and some Houses were preparing to make more space available by converting doubles to triples, and triples to quads...