Word: upperclassman
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Mory's is still a private club, and about as private as the men's room in Grand Central. Almost any upperclassman can join, by countersigning two friends who are members and waiting until his application blank acquires the proper degree of mustiness...
Basic dormitory regulations--as set down in a little purple manual referred to as the "joke book"--state that the Holy Cross upperclassman must be in for the night by 7:30 p.m. on weekdays, 11:45 p.m. on Saturdays, and 11 p.m. on Sundays. For freshmen these times are moved up approximately an hour. A monitoring system of corridor prefects checks up on obedience to these rules with more or less conscientiousness...
...line between undergraduates and graduates, we would draw a line between freshmen and all other students. The freshman has just escaped the more rigid discipline of the school and the home; he is likely to succumb to the heady influence of freedoms which are perfectly reasonable for the upperclassman. The University recognizes this fact by requiring him to do a certain amount of exercise, by taking attendance at classes, and in several other ways. But, while the University relaxes these stricter requirements when the freshman becomes a sophomore, it does not relax the parietal regulations appreciably...
...Upperclassman may now sleep in the morning and format about the 9 a.m. book deadline at Lamont Library...
...report states but underestimates the danger of leaving 460 men out of the Houses. If the Houses do become an integral part of a Harvard education, as the Dean hopes, it would be a terrible policy to force any upperclassman to live elsewhere...