Word: upperclassman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps this description may sound, to some, mawkishly sentimental or overly enthusiastic. But Jubilee is a legacy left to freshmen only. It has no analogies in upperclass life. To an envious upperclassman, it appears to be the stuff of which good times--and good memories...
...West Point, Abrams found the lowly estate of a plebe demeaning, and retaliated with his own guerrilla war against upperclassmen, aiming potshots with his BB gun judiciously due south of retreating backs and once smearing an upperclassman's radiator with Limburger cheese. His pranks found more acceptable outlets in stage-managing the academy's 100th Night Show, and his aggressiveness was more usefully employed on the football field. He graduated a mediocre 185th in his class of 276, but one course in which he excelled was horsemanship. That led him into the cavalry and, with the army...
Potted to Pot. The PMC cadets still rise to reveille at 0700, freeze to attention any time an upperclassman barges into their room. They live in fear of humorless student commanders, who rule their daily lives. This month two cadets were expelled and one suspended when the cadet brigade commander learned that they had returned to campus after a drinking spree and sprayed each other with a fire extinguisher-a prank that would have drawn little more than tolerant laughs at most other schools. Even so, PMC has turned soft, complains Senior Cadet James W. McConnell, president of the student...
Regulations for the first semester freshmen will remain much the same as this year, with signouts required after 10 p.m. and a 1 a.m. curfew unless special permission is obtained from an upperclassman on the dormitory committee...
...eyebrows still snap at references to the arbitrary plan of placement. "We mustn't have the authorities shunt men about. The Houses will be driven to uniformity." Eliot House seniors steeped in the Finley tradition of taste and style are equally opposed to random selection. Says one Eliot House upperclassman of the sophomores admitted under the new system, "You can see a certain sloppiness now in the dining hall. You know, the Winthrop House High School Harry type...