Word: frosh
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...Frosh football at Holy Cross, today...
...work out in sharply varied and instructive styles. None of TIME'S ten teachers, for example, court popularity, but none go farther in scorning it than Amherst's Arnold Arons, 49, who has created a demanding course in math and physics that all freshmen must take. He flunks more frosh than any other Amherst prof, barks "You are an idiot" at boys who were high school valedictorians. An arbitrary egotist, he has inspired student dart boards on which his photograph is the bull's-eye. Arons' scathing answer to his student critics is that "they create certain myths to rationalize...
short of the record for the four-mile pull down the Thames. That made it three in a row for Harvard-and 53-47 on the series-with signs of more to come as both the frosh and junior-varsity crews rowed to victory by wide margins...
...then shifted to single sculls and in 1959 won the National championship and the Pan American Games gold medal, went all the way to the finals of Britain's Henley regatta before losing. A few months later, Harvard offered him a job coaching its frosh, moved him up to the varsity in 1963 when Head Coach Harvey Love died. "This sport tends to be conservative," says Parker. "I'm inclined to try things out to see what works best...
...Saturday at Watson Rink, the freshman, JV, and varsity hockey teams all turned in victories. The frosh upset a highly touted and previously undefeated freshman squad, 5-4; the JV's romped 9-0; and the varsity turned in a credible 6-2 win over the Tiger varsity...