Word: frosh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mind finally caught up to my body. Although I am loathe to admit it, I think that Harvard intimidated me to the point that I lost some of my identity and forgot my sister's advice (via Teddy Roosevelt). I remember reading Julian Barnes' essay in the pre-frosh materials, and I marveled at the time that the President of the Crimson had been afraid to speak up in section as a first-year. Such timidity is reserved for regular guys like...
...hails from Orange County, Calif., says he visited Harvard during pre-frosh week last year and discovered that the College did not fit "the Harvard myth of a stuck-up, preppy school...
Neither did the Crimson's frosh phenom. Milhollin, who sports an outstanding .900 save percentage in the Ivies, tallied 21 saves for the Crimson...
...rumored that North House xenophobes are circulating a sign-up sheet to form a patrol guard for their fortress and check ID cards--with no frosh allowed. It's not clear what they will do when they happen upon an unsuspecting, hungry first-year, but any of the imaginable possibilities would surely violate interhouse rules...
...reason is probably the friction on campus among racial and ethnic communities. World of last year's increase in inter-group racial tensions certainly made its way beyond the Square. The cancellation of the minority student pre-frosh weekend last year may have sent the wrong message at the wrong time. And the fact that pre-frosh weekend happened to take place at the height of last spring's problems certainly didn't encourage prospective Black first-years to choose Harvard over another school--a competing institution that not only may have offered a more positive interracial environment...