Word: underclassman
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...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...
...Chicago have discarded their language requirements for divinity degrees, these Bible-centered seminaries require their students to master exegesis of Scripture from the original Greek and Hebrew. Traditional piety prevails on their campuses, and cutting chapel is at least as reprehensible as cutting classes. By contrast, an uninitiated underclassman at Union recently drew startled stares in a student meeting when he asked, "Don't we begin with a prayer...
Frisoli, who included labels with all his answers, won the Underclassman Award. The Dunster Rock Team, with nine mistakes, received the Team Award as well as a share of the Alan Freed Memorial Essay Prize...
Picked up for $50 by a suburban Chicago manuscript collector last week: a November 1942 letter from General Dwight D. Eisenhower to his son John, then a West Point underclassman. "This is a fine command," wrote Ike of the Allied troops he was about to lead into North Africa. ''And, of course, it is every soldier's ambition to get command of something, even if it is only a platoon. I never once dreamed that my first command would be an 'Allied' one and that I would have soldiers, sailors and airmen of two great...
Upon admission to the college, the freshman is faced not only with the prohibitive list of "Thou shalt nots" but one important "Thou shalt." Every other week, the underclassman must rouse himself for church services. Compulsory chapel is one leg of what Dodds calls "a three-legged stool of religion." The Student Christian Association and the College's own Department of Religion are the other two braces of Princetonian program. A student can contract out of the compulsory chapel only by going to the Dean and saying that he is satisfied by no religious belief and cannot in conscience attend...