Mellon recounted a favorite family story about what happened when a young classmate of Bunny's daughter, Eliza Lloyd, after having viewed van Gogh's "Green Wheat Fields, Auvers," asked Eliza who in her family painted.
Later in the night, Mr. Irving recounted the genesis of "A Prayer for Owen Meany," which involved his adult friends reminding him of a young classmate, and how Mr. Irving used to pick the boy up by his ankles and shake him just to hear his distinctive voice, a "piercing shriek".
A younger Vanderbilt classmate he hadn't spoken to in years — and even then only briefly knew — was among the respondents.
Then the film turns into "The Sound of Music," as that child, Rohit, tall like the grown-up he is, frolics with half a dozen much younger classmates.
In the dorms at Vassar, she lorded it over a harem of smitten younger classmates, who revered her as their Sappho.
Every admissions officer I spoke to about taking a "gap year" said that students who had made that choice arrived on campus wiser and more mature and had a sense of perspective their younger classmates lacked.
Her son turned up on Friday accompanied by a pleasant, towheaded young classmate named Sven.
Junior attackman Derek Maltz said a senior class eager to avoid becoming the first group since 1999 to graduate without capturing a national title at least once stressed to younger classmates the need to put forth maximum effort in practice.
To get out the vote, Ms. Hansen, a senior nursing student who will graduate in December, has enlisted the help of her family, her middle-aged friends and some of her younger classmates to hang posters and create a campaign video.
As a result, they might still be playing catch-up to younger classmates.
