Word: frosh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pother at Yale had begun the week before, when a fine fall of late winter snow had coincided with a fettlesome rise of early spring sap. When, at 10 o'clock one night, the Harkness bells clanged out "Bulldog, Bulldog," the results were more or less predictable. Frosh surged out of dormitories like beer from a sprung keg, and began pitching snowballs. Brawlers leaked over locked gates and through classroom buildings into the streets, made a token charge at that often-bloodied Manassas of Yale riots, the Hotel Taft...
...University of Kentucky admits any state resident with a high school diploma. Not long ago the fed-up faculty "felt it advisable," said President Frank G. Dickey, "to do something to stimulate the students." So the university decreed that all freshmen must maintain C-average grades, and that any frosh who failed to do so for two semesters would be bounced. Next year all students will have to stay above C level...
...House's big freshman class trooped into the Library of Congress' Coolidge Auditorium to attend a new institution: a school for Congressmen, bipartisan brainchild of such considerate upperclassmen as Maine's Democrat Frank Coffin and New Jersey's Republican Peter Frelinghuysen. In the first class, frosh heard New York Timesman James ("Scotty") Reston tell them how to make news. Senator Hugh Scott, Pennsylvania Republican, and Senator Eugene McCarthy, Minnesota Democrat, both lately risen from the Lower House to the Continuing Body, rubbed in a delicate point by scheduling a discussion this week titled "The House: Changing...
...instead of historical texts. Sample Mendenhall problem, fed to one class of freshmen: was the famous mot de Cam-bronne that French General Pierre Cam-bronne uttered near the end of the Battle of Waterloo really "The old guard dies, but never surrenders"-or was it simply "Merde!"? The frosh dutifully turned up evidence to back both mots...
After kicking off to B.C., the frosh forced the home team to punt with sterling defensive play and then marched to a touchdown the first time they had the ball, eating up 60 yards in only four plays. Halfback Roy Williams went the final 30 yards for the score...