Word: underclassman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part of the novel, Eliot House Master John Finley '25 explains to underclassman Danny Rossi, a musical genius, why he had been assigned to Eliot, which Rossi considers full of "smug preppies." Finley says, "I wanted you very badly, Daniel. I had to trade the master of Adams two football stalwarts and a published poet just to get him to relinquish...
...Just a warning: perhaps the most annoying thing any wide-eyed underclassman can do is stare a senior in the face and say, "You must have absolutely nothing to do! Senior spring, chuckle, chuckle. How nice...
...noteworthy that Melendez, who drafted 137 pages of Council by-laws as an eager underclassman (and pared the tome to 21 ages before graduating), is the consummate student councilor. No one knows more about the Undergraduate Council than he does...
...Twardzik, notes the new economy of Erving's moves, and smiles. Before Twardzik was a starting guard for an N.B.A. champion in Portland, he was a substitute for the Virginia Squires of the old American Basketball Association, headlined in the early '70s by an Afro-puffed University of Massachusetts underclassman from Roosevelt, N.Y. "I only played 20 minutes a game, and I didn't mind," Twardzik says, "because I could sit and enjoy Doc. I remember thinking 'They're paying me to watch this guy play.' On the bench, we'd elbow each other and whisper, 'Did you see that...
...persuaded that few undergraduates can step right into pro football, the N.F.L. has a 50-year-old rule prohibiting teams from enlisting players before their college class graduates. Twelve years ago, unable to defend roughly this same restrictive position in court, pro basketball gave in to University of Detroit Underclassman Spencer Haywood and since then has grabbed a few children from high schools. Baseball always preferred that teen-age prospects matriculate in the minor leagues...