Word: freshmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, there are no illusions about the importance of the JV's won-loss record (which currently stands at 4-6). Because freshmen can now compete at the varsity level (they couldn't in the early '70s), the JV is no longer a one-year apprenticeship for incoming star recruits...
...startling pre-game move, Captain Pat Smith--who had started in a team-high 66 consecutive games prior to last night--was benched in favor of freshmen Neil Phillips--usually a forward--and Mike Gielen...
...wind and playing dodge the falling tree branches. Mother Nature's second curve ball this year drew out sun-bathers and frisbee fans alike under the summery trance of sunny weather. And now the third installment in this year's series of climatic climaxes once again lured swarms of freshmen out of their brick-insulated homes--this time into the winter-white expanse stretching from John Harvard's snow-covered nose to Mass Hall...
...this hedonistic mindset lasts only as long as the ephemeral elements that cause it. As I ran, snowball in hand, amid fellow frolicking freshmen, I heard an alarming piece of conversation. "Are you taking Chem 20?" queried one snowball thrower of his companion. When I realized that the classwide fun and games in the Yard would soon give way to individual quests for second semester success, the veil of frost glazing my vision quickly cleared...
FOOTNOTE: *Republican Freshmen Senators Phil Gramm of Texas and Warren B. Rudman of New Hampshire actually have a better-known co-sponsor, Democrat Ernest F. Hollings of South Carolina, but two sponsors' names are generally about all that people want to remember. Purists call it Gramm-Rudman- Hollings, or GRH. Officially, its name is the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control...