Word: upperclassmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Miller said that the upperclassmen who live in the Yard next year will serve as "unofficial, informal proctors...
Young made it clear that the upperclassmen will not take on any of the officia, duties of a proctor, such as signing study cards...
...regular drug user to stay on the team: that it's illegal and a detriment to the team and Harvard. Yet the majority of the team, including some of his stars, at least occasionally smoke dope and a number are into or have been into considerably heavier trips. The upperclassmen report that Benn Merritt and Harold Miroff were beginning to grasp something of the context of drug use here and finding it less horrifying than they had feared. Don Gambril and Skip Kenney have a longer way to go. Kenney was talking to Rich Baughman after practice one day. Baughman...
...just trying to finish up this season, but I'm mostly working on next year." Which is fine for Gambril and the freshmen, but hardly contributed to the juniors and seniors wanting to work hard and see their team do well. Gambril tended to ignore the upperclassmen during workouts and concentrate on his stars. Fred Mitchell, Baughman, Neville and Brumwell. One junior stated. "We've got five coaches and it was like there weren't any at workouts." For some of the swimmers the thought of being beaten soundly be one or two uppity freshmen helped in their decisions...
Once the decision to hire Gambril had been made, it probably could not have been any other way this year. Co-captain Paul Horwitz, who had more contact with Gambril than the other upperclassmen, felt Coach Gambril had been on a tightrope this year and had handled all the parties fairly. Baron Pittenger and the Harvard athletic administration can claim that the arrival of Don Gambril"...was not a distinct change in Harvard's swimming program." Gambril himself would consider that an insult. He didn't come here planning on finishing ninth at Easterns...