Word: freshmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Silent on Crimson Freshmen...
...Freshmen, Colwell was uninformed, but was obviously disheartened at the Blue Varsity's defeat by Columbia. "You can't lose four men from your backfield and one of the best centers in the east and look good in the opening game. But they'll make trouble for somebody this season," he added...
Rather than adopt a plan so drastic and generally unsatisfactory as an increase in the number of courses taken by Freshmen and reduction in the number of meetings, more half-courses should be offered in which Yardlings might glimpse at the finer things. At all events, some steps must be taken by University Hall if men are to go forth from Harvard equipped with anything more than shop talk...
...Underwood. Would it still be able to unravel those neat, printed letters which somehow lessen the chaos of thought? Could it still supply the right word, the proper touch to sentences in this foreign atmosphere? Then suddenly, in the vast loneliness of unfamiliar surroundings, he remembered again how Freshmen feel. How awful and unhuman and unknowable college seems. How important and lightning and complicated a History 1 lecture can sound. How vast and impersonal and uninterested the Union can feel. How suave and learned and acquainted everyone else can seem when you are the only one in a New herd...
...Freshmen get along. They learn of tutoring schools and mimeographed lecture notes. They get used to the animal heads and the menu at the Union. They acquire shoes and hats and slacks and friends like the rest. They find their places and the atmosphere gradually, unnoticeably, has meanwhile through some magic grown normal and livable. They get used to Harvard--their New room. And the Vagabond guesses that pretty soon he will get used to his New room, too. Till then he, too, will just grope hopefully for the light...