Word: freshmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ghosts. But, the Union's original benefactor, Major Henry Lee Higginson (class of 1855), never intended it to host any of these somewhat lowly activities. Nor, as a matter of fact, did he intend the Union to be a dining area or for it to be exclusively for freshmen...
...better at coming up with prohibitions than at making positive sugestions. Visit your frosh, they suggest. Take them to dinner in the houses. Well, freshmen are busy people, and some upperclassman who shows up once or twice a week to run a study break or take people to dinner just doesn't generate a lot of interest...
...enjoyed visiting with my freshmen and attending their study breaks, but I don't think I ever became more than a Harvard-sponsored "friend...
Even in the midst of the housing lottery freshmen were reluctant to trek up to the Quad or down to Mather on a night that fits someone else's schedule. I should have been prepared to eat dinner by myself when I scheduled a trip to Currier House. I wasn't, and I couldn't help feeling angry and unwanted...
This year's decision to wait until after the first study cards were due to introduce freshmen to their prefects intensified the program's lack of purpose. Freshmen might have needed and wanted the advice of upperclassmen as they tried to figure out the shopping system and chose their first Harvard courses. But by the time I met the freshmen in my group, they already had developed sources of information and weren't particularly interested in others...