Word: upperclassmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Normally, there is no housing problem in Febraury, von Stade observed. So many upperclassmen leave or graduate, he said, that commuters are able to be accommodated. In fact, he noted, there were more vacancies last year than could be filled...
These figures should probably be taken with a grain of salt, however. First of all, the university average includes the marks of freshmen, which are very much lower than upperclassmen's. (Fraternities have no freshman members.) And, more important, most frats are very careful not to bid for students with low grades, since any "organized living group" which does not maintain a certain average will be placed on social probation. The fraternities are usually very careful to enforce their own "study hours" rules...
...present the Council receives its only income in contributions from the student body, and mainly from freshmen. The reasons for this, Leland explained, are that freshmen contribute more than upperclassmen to all drives, and that upperclassmen realize that they will "receive benefits from the Council whether they contribute...
Sixty per cent of the upperclassmen polled last spring favor a reduction in the number of meals they are required to take weekly, according to a report presented to the Student Council at its meeting Monday...
Pennypacker Hall will be in the cognomenal tradition of Wigglesworth, the freshman dormitory which last year was turned into a shelter for upperclassmen squeezed out of the Houses...