Word: freshman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite a disappointing 9-9 Eastern League record (16-18 overall), the Harvard baseball team still landed two players--Co-Captain Frank Caprio and freshman Aron Allen--on the All-EIBL first team...
Obviously, he was wrong. Anderson was accepted and, of course, came. The one culture shock the Georgia resident recalls experiencing during Freshman Week was parties. "I'd never seen so many people drink so much beer in my life," says Anderson, who lived in Grays freshman year. "I've never seen that much consumption...
Ironically enough, in March of her freshman year she received a slip of paper which read "Kirkland House." Guess what happened when she went to her first Kirkland party: "That was the second shock," Anderson says...
Although Anderson had decided to lay aside singing when she arrived at Harvard, she soon changed her mind Anderson tried out for the Opportunes freshman year and went on from there to join Robespierre, a pop/funk band which had become one of the more prominent bands by the time she joined. By the start of her junior year, Anderson's skills were so widely renowned that she was the sole undergraduate chosen to sing with the Boston Pops at Harvard's 350th stadium celebration...
That camaraderie in the Black community can at times be at problem, especially when it comes to dating, Anderson says. "A lot of the Black people who come in the freshman class bond very quickly, and everyone becomes like a sister or a brother to you," she says. "So that means that dating is out the window. The Black community is so small that anybody who dated anybody was probably your friend, and you would probably feel very awkward, going behind the person that they dated...