Word: upperclass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fair felt that House-oriented Reunions indicated the increasing influence the upperclass dwellings exerted on College life. "The Houses are playing a more and more important role in the academic and social organization of the University," he said...
...first History and Lit majors graduated in 1909. During their upperclass years, in addition to taking regular courses, they had done special reading under the direction of Committee members--perhaps the first example of tutorial at Harvard. With no formal courses of its own, History and Lit through the years has remained essentially a tutorial field...
...these luxurious surroundings gather the cream of Harvard's St. Grottlesex crop, the most sophisticated of the graduates of the prominent New England private schools. These men--a scant 14 per cent or so of each upperclass--look to the Clubs as centers for privacy and "good-fellowship," cut off from the hectic University by their locked front doors, their aura of secrecy, and a generally shared feeling of superiority...
...more representative cross-section of interests and reduce the possibility of the social-dining facilities becoming a haven for any one group; you expose potential new members in the sophomore class to the possibilities inherent in the quadrangle and increase the chances for building a voluntary and satisfied upperclass membership...
There is the usual amount of intellectual division between the arts and the engineering students. However, engineer and humanist are stripped of their intellectual clothing and herded together again for Lehigh's next process of separation: fraternity rushing. (Upperclass figures--5, dormitory residents; .4, residents at one of the university's 30 national fraternity chapters; .1, commuters...