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...Social, in which all dances during the year will be included, as well as the Smoker and almost anything else the Freshman does that is not recorded in the more conventional parts of the book. The Social section is entirely written by a first person essence of Freshmanhood...
...tenderest freshmanhood it develops, nor ought we to affect surprise. Almost everything about the usual university works toward making him feel small; instead of seeing an establishment got up for him and ingratiatingly placed at his disposal, it appears rather to delight in minimizing his importance--with the natural result. Dwindling in his own eyes, he reasserts himself, though that is at first a bit difficult. He cannot subtract one cubit from the stature of those collegiate halls whose very size and costliness and grandeur overawe and humiliate him. He cannot lighten by so much as an ounce the pressure...
...Smith College (Northampton, Mass.), opened her gates, but had to scrutinize closely those who entered. There was room for only 550 of the 1,400 young women who sought freshmanhood. Next year the scrutiny will have to be doubly close. Already some 2,200 have applied for examination...
Breathes there a graduate with soul so dead as to have forgotten how, in those first few weeks of frightened freshmanhood, the one thing he had in common with other scared freshmen, the one thing which gave him a sense of "belonging" amid the vast impersonal vacuum of a great university, the one voice and note of pervading human personality in which everybody had a share, was Copey? Meeting classmates whom you didn't know from Adam there was one way you could always make conversation, one platform on which you could always get together, and that was your huge...
...writes the date of the same year after his name as his classmate does? It must be seen that the question of class feeling depends on the answers to these questions, and I cannot doubt how any one will answer them who has lost the ardor of his Freshmanhood. Then why not acknowledge that class feeling exists no longer, and cease trying to give expression to a creed we no longer profess? It would require some determination, perhaps; the young ladies might look a little chagrined when we told them that there would be no dancing and hugging about...