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Word: freshmanhood (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Colleges | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 3/9/1925 | See Source »

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