Word: upperclassmen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...BALCH, Secretarr.FOOTBALL NOTICE.- Class teams will begin work Monday. The following freshmen will come out at 3.30 sharp with the upperclassmen: Vail, Rob, Cummings, Rogers, Brice, Davis, Upton, Parker, Bartlett, Blake, Diblee. Upperclassmen at 3 sharp; freshmen at 2.45 sharp...
...definite action this year is easily seen. That some changes in the conduct of the freshman contests are necessary is very evident. If Yale will accept the changes now, it will do away with most of the trouble next year. It is to be hoped that the committee of upperclassmen will appreciate this and make a favorable report before the end of he term...
...reported that several seniors are having difficulty in getting rooms in the yard for class day and that in some instances the trouble is made not by freshmen, who may be ignorant of the custom, but by upperclassmen and even graduates in the other departments. It is a matter of surprise that there should be any objection to a custom that is sanctioned both by precedent and by reason. Class day is the greatest day in the whole college course and every man whether he is a senior or not ought to be willing to help to make...
Under "Topics of the Day," there is an interesting article on "The Freshman Advisers." The bitter opening caricature of the freshmen is rather uncalled for when it is considered that the greater part of the condemnation of this plan of advisers for the freshmen has come from upperclassmen; and if we mistake not, the Advocate has contributed its quota of editorial sarcasm to the "guardian angels" of the freshmen. Aside from this the article is one of the most sensible which has appeared in the Advocate for some time. No one who has seriously considered the matter can doubt that...
...fashion, and of the heavy subscribers to athletic games (i. e., of the fast set), which is overwhelming in the freshman year, is almost entirely supersided by the influence of the Monthly editors, of the members of historical, philosophical and finance clubs of the senior year; and as the upperclassmen give the tone to the college, you see how misleading Mr. Quest's article is. The fast men are there and do harm to themselves. But the importance which Mr. Quest's article assigns to them and their doings is wholly unwarrantable...