| He was suspended, and nearly expelled, from West Point for a fight with an upperclassman. |
| The first lesson I learned as a plebe came from an upperclassman yelling in my face. |
| It began during my freshman year in college when an upperclassman during orientation told our group we had to learn how to juggle. |
| On another occasion, he suggested that it would be funny if the student newspaper referred to Neil Newhouse, an upperclassman, as Nail Oldbarn. |
| His only achievement there, he said, was playing a round of pool with a basketball-playing upperclassman, Wilt Chamberlain. |
| At the designated time, he showed up in a subterranean Parrish office and was greeted by an upperclassman and a mimeograph machine. |