Word: upperclassmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...during the last 10 years at Harvard, there's been a reversal. Sophomores, for example, won more letters than juniors and sensors together this year in cross-country and track; sophomores outnumbered the upperclassmen on the hockey team; sophomores on the swimming team have been three times more numerous than seniors during the past two years...
...teams in the country for the last several years. Nor am I saying that student's decay physically at Harvard more than elsewhere. The House programs probably make the overall athletic level at Harvard and Yale higher than anywhere does in the country. They also provide an outlet for upperclassmen that desert the university ranks...
Fencing and skiing demonstrate an equally scarce participation from upperclassmen. It is these individual sports, which offer less rigid training schedules, that seniors avoid. In fact, football, soccer, hockey, and baseball teams all have a large jump in lettermen from the sophomore to junior year. These sports also have junior varsity teams that serve as training grounds. Yovicsin, a firm believer in experience and careful play, arranges for Harvard to have more junior varsity games than anyone else in the league. He never has more than five sophomore regulars on his teams, even with the two-platoon system...
...summer ends, 1211 Harvard and 3rd Radcliffe freshmen join 3500 male and 900 female upperclassmen in the nation's oldest and richest College and its annex. Mrs. Bunting returns to Radcliffe from the Atomic Energy Commission. A faculty committee calls the Ed School's guiding philosophy "basically sound" but does suggest that there might be better teaching and an emphasis on advanced work...
...Bunting asks the Radcliffe Government Association to consider abolishing the signout system for upperclassmen. Four monkeys going to the School of Public Health escape from their crates at Logan Airport and enjoy 14 hours of freedom. Seven drunken, machete-swinging Ecaudorans attack the curator of birds at the Museum of Comparative Biology, his wife, and a Harvard senior under the impression that they are government officials coming to confiscate land. The senior obtains help by running six miles through the jungle in his bare feet. The Gov Department makes grades in Gov 99 the letter equivalents of thesis ratings...