Word: freshmen
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...FRESHMEN SUBMITTED their house choices yesterday. Or rather, their "choices." For as everyone knows, the three houses that most freshmen listed on their housing applications are hardly the three houses in which they would most like to spend the next three years. Rather, the three choices, especially for those 'shmen with high lottery numbers, are the houses where frosh think they have the best chance of finding open space...
Harvard administrators point to this phenomenon as a failing of the two-year-old lottery system that gives freshmen lottery numbers before requiring them to submit their house "choices." It is not. The fault does not lie in the lottery system but in the computer program that matches freshmen with houses...
This year's juniors and seniors groups and have the freshmen show up, in numerical order, in groups of 50 at Memorial Hall. There they would make their house choices based on the availability of room in each house. If a rooming group found that their true first choice house (say Eliot) was full, it could check out the capacity of other popular houses before "settling" for Mather or Cabot...
Yesterday, Harvard got another chance against Maryland, and the team was able to pull out a tie. Overall, the Crimson won most of its tourney games, and was able to give some of its younger players--10 of the squad's members are freshmen--a chance to gain playing experience...
Such views are often spread through radical study groups that have sprung up on every South Korean campus. Dabbling in authors ranging from Lenin to Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, the groups recruit promising freshmen who know little about politics or political theory and soon acquire a taste for sweeping generalities. "Basically our program stresses freedom, independence and democracy," one member says. Some groups run summer camps that bring youths to the mountains for intensive study. Others encourage students to quit school and take up jobs in factories, where they try to organize workers. While police seek to break up the groups...