Many of his classmates did not.
Their daughters attended college under assumed names, and many of their classmates did not know their true identities.
There he got a foretaste of that bitter awakening which many of his classmates did not experience until years later, when they returned from Vietnam to the social cataclysms that challenged the verities of duty, honor, and country they had learned at West Point.
In 1994, during my junior year, I spent two periods at Mark Twain, a school for troubled youth, and two periods at Magruder High School in Rockville, Md. Though I was glad to be at Magruder, many of my classmates did not make it easy.
"Many of my classmates did not understand everything that the professor explained in class, and sometimes it was better to repeat the more complicated parts in Awajún".
In the end I persevered, but many of my friends and classmates did not.
Louis Auchincloss observes that "the great and deciding moment of T.R.'s life" came during the 1884 Presidential campaign, when he chose to support a Republican nominee whom he disliked, James G. Blaine, rather than sit out the election in a mugwumpish sulk, as many of his politically minded Harvard classmates did.
Dressing sexy, as she and so many of her classmates do, was one thing.
The 15-year-old girl told us that she and many of her classmates don't want to have a proper breakfast at home because they don't want to run the risk of having to go to the school toilet.
I knew the ending already, but my classmates didn't.
