Word: upperclassmen
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...reaching the New Haven House, Harvard men found the balconies filled with the fairest of New Haven beauties, and the streets crowded. The celebrated fences were occupied by a struggling throng of upperclassmen, who pushed and jostled each other in truly fraternal manner, waiting for the only victorious Yale team of 1885 to appear. A shout, then a roar, from the unwashed announce their appearance; down the long street in silence and precision the class of '88 marches with the proud team in advance and with blue banners flapping triumphantly to the breeze...
...comparative quiet at last reigns there, one loud voice calls for the '88 glee club; which now, hoarse with cheering, begins to sing the Yale anthem, with laudatory verses to '88, '87, '86 and '85; all egotistic references to freshman exploits being received with howls of derision by the upperclassmen. This song leads to others, and long after the darkness has shut down on the city, the freshmen remain seated on their cherished fence, discoursing sweet music, till the hour arrives for going to the freshman banquet. Such is the reward they earn for defeating a Harvard team...
...freshmen brought numbers of the incoming class to Cambridge last week. Eighty-nine enters Harvard with just twice as many men as are enrolled in the freshman class at Yale. Her athletic record should be proportionally more brilliant than that of her rival class at New Haven. Let the upperclassmen, then, with all due sobriety and moderation, drink success to the class from which the college expects so much...
Princeton upperclassmen have organized a "law and order league" to enforce the better sentiment of the college regarding hazing and rushes at the sophomore-freshman base-ball game...
...rather overburdened, as he made his customary rounds, with about a thousand extra missives, innocent looking enough in themselves, clad as they were in small and modest looking envelopes. But a closer inspection of the outside showed the ominous words, "Return to Allen Danforth," in the corner, and upperclassmen who read this legend knew well enough what was inside. Now it happened that we were sitting in the room of a prominent '85 man when this important official document fell through his letter-slip, and dropped unpretentiously to the floor. To us the disjointed comments he made while perusing...