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...true that he greeted me with a flaming tennis ball soaked in lighter fluid which came sailing down the stone staircase of Mower B as I arrived,” says Zobel’s first-year roommate John Cooke Dowd ’53-’90. “It did provide me with a somewhat less than usually banal introduction to life as a Harvard undergraduate...
Mansfield particuarly remembers taking a history of science class as a first-year with then-University President James B. Conant...
...early years of the General Education curriculum, Mansfield says before grade inflation existed—Mansfield notes that C’s were the average grade then—many students found the adjustment to Harvard difficult. Mansfield himself says that as a first-year he “had his moments of doubt and challenge” with his academics...
...adventurous group of first-year downhill skiers built a makeshift ramp on one side of the Widener steps and impressed onlookers with their jumps. On the other side of the library, students sledded down the stairs on dining hall trays...
Some of these snowbound antics were “dangerous fun,” according to Lt. Francis P. Shannon of the Harvard University Police Department. One first-year seriously injured his leg after taking a 40-foot jump into Pusey Library’s sunken courtyard and hitting his leg on a snow-covered stone wall...