Word: freshman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard tradition was a pretty large factor in my coming here," says freshman heavyweight Owen West, who rowed for four years at St. Paul's High School in Minneapolis, Minn...
...eyes on The Crimson beforeI was a freshman and was at the first comp meetingfreshman week. So, too, was a good portion of myclassmates. Intimidated, I sucked down one or twoof the beers they fed us and made a beeline out ofthe place. I also went to the Lampoon compmeeting and the same thing happened. I was afraidof failure, of not measuring up to snuff at thefamous institutions of the Big H. Afraid that Icouldn't do things well, I chose not to do them atall...
Four autumns ago, when Nicholas I. Martin '88 first laid eyes on Erik J. Salovaara '88 in the freshman suite they would share in Wigglesworth Hall, he was not impressed. As Martin tells it, "I'm living with a bagman" was the first thought to cross his mind as he saw the groggy, half-dressed Salovaara stumble into the common room to meet Martin and his parents. The impression was reinforced when he realized that the stench of his roommate's clothes permeated the suite...
Little did Martin know that Salovaara and his clothing had been soaked and mildewed on his Freshman Outdoor Program canoeing trip, and little did Stone expect ever to find Elby's personal brand of humor endearing. And littler still did any of the four expect to live together for the entirety of their Harvard experience...
...powers that be in the Freshman Dean's Office did indeed make a special project of Wigglesworth A-11, four years later, their creation is still functioning smoothly. Listening to the four students' friendly, nostalgic banter, one is struck by the degree to which each feels comfortable with his place within the group. They exemplify the notion that one is only free to be an individual within a community...