Word: freshman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hall. I was about a third of the way down the line. In the front was a Negro fellow with wonderful yellow sunglasses, except that I did not think they were wonderful then, they begin uptight (a word I learned later) and trying very hard to be a Harvard freshman. First it was sideburns--Marty claims he was the first one in the freshman class with sideburns, but Marty, who is married now, always claimed such things. Then, it was wire-rimmed glasses. On our floor of the entry, we were totally against them, especially after Richard got a pair...
...Freshman Union showed tentative signs of letting Cliffies eat inter house lunch there, but President Pusey said that more ambitious plans for co-ed living were impossible as long as Harvard and Radcliffe were separate colleges. Pusey said that the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences would have to have full control over Cliffies before it could let them live in any Harvard houses...
Proctors in the freshman dorms agreed to remove parietals sign-in books. Only when the freshman decision was announced did most upperclassmen realize that sing-in books in the Houses had been gone for three weeks...
February 14: F. Skiddy von Stade called off an experimental program for letting Cliffies eat in the freshman...
...their careers interrupted and others were forced into the "speed up" program taking classes year round and graduating as early as possible. "The main object was to get your degree and get out as soon as possible," said Sam Leland. "The friendships were formed were formed in our freshman and sophomore years." For those who were in the speed up the last years of college life were warped beyond recognition. Most of the student organizations folded or were transformed into war college institutions. The >Lampoon ceased publication, the CRIMSON was turned into the Armed Services News, and most...