Word: frosh
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...ritualistic spring tours of Harvard Yard for pre-frosh (perspective freshmen at Swarthmore) take on new import. The high schoolers are doing more than soaking up the surroundings; they are taking note off Harvard's particular linguistics...
Come September, the acceptance-seeking frosh is not going to give himself away by appearance or age; rather, the Yardling will make his mistake by confusing Mem Church with Mem Hall (which is a dead ringer for a cathedral anyway, with Michael Sandel as high priest), or reacting with a blank look when someone asks him for his bursar's card, or confusing a gov jock and a crew jock...
...What are you going to major in," Joe Pre-Frosh will be asked this summer. "We don't major, we concentrate," he'll reply kindly. "This special writing major, uh, concentration, they, uh, we have, ex-pos, sounds good, although I think you have to fill out a bursar's card...
...September, some will be experts at the vocabulary game, understanding full well that the IOP's at the K-school on JFK. But for now, the wandering pre-frosh are still struggling with the basics, still learning to distinguish Harvard Yard from the Radcliffe Quad, and still searching for the Square in Harvard Square...
...freshmen Coach Ted Washburn's crews have dominated the competition for the past four years, earning Eastern Sprints titles in each of those campaigns, but Washburn may be facing an uphill battle to extend that streak in '87. His vulnerable first heavies dropped their season-opener to the Brown frosh last Saturday...