Word: upperclassmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Easterns last year; junior Bob Lawton couldn't reach his freshman year times, senior breaststroker Dave Law quit; Craig Sewell and Howie Burns quit again, and Henry Watson never made it to the first meet. The reasons for the poor or non-performance of the upperclassmen are many; academic pressures, bad love lives, poor health, being constantly stoned, but some of it must be traced to the feeling expressed over and over again that they didn't feel they really belonged on Don Gambril's team...
...beginning of last season things looked bright. The strongest freshman team in a decade was eligible for varsity competition, the upperclassmen, led by former Eastern champion sprinters Mike Cahalan and Steve Krause, were strong, and it was head coach Bill Brooks's last year...
...upperclassmen didn't share Baughman's enthusiasm. Some had a wait and see attitude, but many were upset that Merritt hadn't gotten the job and had visions of Gambril as a crew-cut, marine drill sergeant who would wring a national championship out of Harvard if it killed them all. Gambril felt this hostility, and in his first appearance before the swimmers last May 17 he treaded softly, was well-spoken, and let the team know that radical changes weren't in the planning stages: no one would be cut, twice a day practices would not be required...
...Upperclassmen and/or proctors selected jointly by Radcliffe and the freshman dean's office will advise the freshmen living in the Yard, while the Quad freshmen would be under the jurisdiction of their House Staffs...
...Plan B" was a modification of a housing proposal by Dean Whitlock. In Whitlock's recommendation, the freshmen living at Radcliffe would have all lived together in three halls presently part of South House instead of being spread among all the Radcliffe Houses. His plan meant that the upperclassmen now living in those dorms would have been forced to move...