Word: upperclassman
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Wallace's experience as a student confined to a wheelchair was a four-year struggle against frustration. As a freshman he had access to two suites in the entire Yard, both located in one entryway in one dormitory. As an upperclassman in Leverett House, one of the three houses at the College even partially wheelchair accessible, he had no access to the library, common rooms or most students' rooms. And, when the University said living on the 10th floor would be a fire hazard for him, Wallace enlisted the aid of a Boston lawyer to convince Harvard...
...poor freshman will give away his lowly status by his quizzical gaze and questioning stammer when an upperclassman friend simply says, "After my Science A, I'll be swimming at the IAB--I mean MAC--you know, right around the corner from OCS, by D.U. Meet me there and we'll have lunch in A-house...
...better at coming up with prohibitions than at making positive sugestions. Visit your frosh, they suggest. Take them to dinner in the houses. Well, freshmen are busy people, and some upperclassman who shows up once or twice a week to run a study break or take people to dinner just doesn't generate a lot of interest...
...upperclassman, Jewett lived in Lowell House, where rooms were also priced, until his senior year. "Back then, it [Lowell] was more of a broad-based house," he says. "It didn't have as much of an academic reputation. It was more like Quincy and Leverett are today...
...Harvard upperclassman says that after nine dates with nine different guys she "is the envy of [her] hall." A Quincy House senior says she specified that she was six feet tall and received a response from a law student who is six feet, four inches tall--which was "pretty psych...