Word: upperclassmen
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Four out of the six campuses studied provide students with the option of subscribing to dining hall food to varying degrees. While Harvard requires students to join a 21-meal-per-week plan, Brown University, for example, permits students to pay for as few as seven, and allows upperclassmen to live on the Providence, R.I., campus without purchasing any university meals...
Dartmouth College, which is slightly more restrictive than Brown, forces its freshmen to join at least a 14-meal plan. But Dartmouth upperclassmen can purchase as few as five meals per week. MIT and the University of California at Berkeley similarly offer a selection of meal plans from which to choose. Amherst College and Stanford University, however, require an eating arrangement similar to Harvard's: students living in university housing must pay for a full week of meals...
Dartmouth students can gain $2.25 in credit, and MIT upperclassmen can select a meal plan which offers a refund for meals not taken. Dartmouth also allows students to take their regular meals at a special snack bar area with a fixed menu, an option which is growing in popularity. "The demand is increasing for that kind of eating," said Jerry Gamble, catering manager for the Dartmouth Dining Association. "I could foresee a situation where the number of people eating from a la carte could be equal to the number of people eating in the dining hall...
...1920s, freshman dormitories Gore, Standish and Smith were dueling in more than a dozen sports. Soon after W.J. Bingham '16 took the reins as Harvard's first athletic director in 1926, the intramural program expanded to for mally include upperclassmen. But it was President Lowell's inauguration of the House system in the early '30s that gave intramural athletics their natural medium Students began competing for their Houses rather than for their classes. The new systems inflated the number of teams competing thus opening up intramurals for widespread participation...
...definitely a good thing to do," says Hershbach. Unification of freshmen in the Yard and nearby Union dorms seems to offer at least one common Harvard experience for undergraduates, officials agree. Hanna Hastings recalls that freshmen assigned to the Quad and then reassigned to a Quad House as upperclassmen because of bad luck in the lottery "really felt that they were given...