Word: freshman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Their first musicomedy was the Columbia Varsity Show of 1920 written in Rodger's freshman year. Soon after Rodgers quit Columbia, and for five years the two of them plugged along, getting a few shots at Broadway, but no lucky ones. Then in 1925 the Theatre Guild, wanting some tapestries for its new theatre and a chance to give its understudies a workout, decided to put on an informal little revue, engaged Rodgers to write the music. Hart came in on the lyrics. The show, under the title of the Garrick Gaities, opened...
Coach Skip Stahley sent his Freshman football aspirants through two long "fundamental" workouts Saturday morning and afternoon, and hard drills again booked for today. Over 70 candidates have signed up, but the number is expected to hit close to the century mark this week...
Forty Quincy Street, the new Freshman dormitory, entered the news for the first time yesterday as tales of locked doors, fire alarms and a Yardling Lady Godiva ran rife...
Only when the first Freshman slipped past him into the clutches of 'Poon salesmen and laundrymen did Vag realize that Fall had come again, and that he was collaring Freshmen for subscriptions to his paper once more. It made him think of the distant days when he first made the voyage through Mem Hall--learning how to sign his name on the way, signing up for all the periodicals. He remembered his initial trip across the Square, how he had wanted to take a taxi back to the Yard; he recalled the sign he'd put on his door warning...
...turned a deaf ear to the throaty gurgles of Guardian editors catching their first sight of hard cash in over a year and lapsed again into reverie, permitting a mental tear to soften his brain. Oh, to be a Freshman one more. To have four years of certain free summers ahead. To be free from having to think of something to be. Vag experienced slight nausea at his own nostalgia, and his thoughts swung to what courses he might sit in on this year. There was always Merriman's first lecture, a phenomenon in itself. There would be Holcombe...