Word: freshman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock Saturday morning David Dennis '42 confronted Mrs. Prindle of the Records Office in University Hall with the first complete Freshman study card, thus becoming the recipient of a free subscription to the CRIMSON...
...exactly three centuries ago that the College opened, and the first Freshman Class matriculated. The College was founded by a vote of the General Court in the fall of 1636; but owing to an Indian war and a female agitator the actual opening was delayed almost two years. Early in 1638 the Board of Overseers purchased for the College a house and yard in "Cow-yard Row", where the natives of the "Newetown" parked their cattle at night. When the name of Newetown was changed to Cambridge, the citizens were so pleased that they granted the College a slice...
...First Freshman in Summer...
Last year in a small room on the first floor of the House Williams and Swett were able to assist some 300 students from every branch of the University to find an answer to personal questions. The entire gamut of possible problems was run, from a Freshman's doubts about taking up Chinese to a graduate student's hesitation about taking a wife. So far, it is claimed, no situation has stumped their resourcefulness...
...settling down to four years at Harvard it would be wise if the Freshman included in his academic schedule a certain number of hours which he will waste each day. He may study in those hours, but will learn things he will never use and promptly forget. But this waste has a value; it shows him something dull or worthless or leads to a dead end. As Nock said further in the same article: "Useless knowledge . . . gains value only as it is forgotten. . . . So let no one be fazed by his inability to accomplish a scholastic task quickly. Part...