On the first morning of the college term, the dean entered and cheerily proclaimed,
"Good Morning!"
Whereupon, the assembly echoed the phrase back to him.
"Ah, you're freshmen."
"When you walk in and say good morning," he explained, "and they say good morning back, it's freshmen.
"When they put their newspapers down and open their books, it's sophomores.
"When they look up so they can see the instructor over the tops of the newspapers, it's juniors.
"When they put their feet up on the desks and keep reading, it's seniors.
"When you walk in and say good morning, and they write it down, it's graduate students ..."
----------------A Final Thought ...
"In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated rather than by being learned."
- A. N. Wilson (b. 1950), British author