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...freshmen were told they had a great deal of knowledge, but that they would shortly lose it. This, the sages explained, is how Harvard has acquired its vast storehouse of learning. It is obvious, then, that the freshman sets the pattern for the entire University. At other institutions the frosh is frowned upon as the lowest form of invertebrate, but not so here...
...years learning to be both omnipresent and inconspicuous. He was never a college football star himself, though he did earn baseball and basket letters at Brown ('16) and played enough football to get "the feel" of it. Like his fellow officials, he started with high school and frosh games, graduated in time to the college circuit. This year, for the first time in his career, Swaffield drew the top assignment in the control of the Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association, the Army-Navy game...
...Princeton, the former is usually the case. Princeton freshmen are required to wear little black dinks, (the fields of hazing and spirit are hopelessly enmeshed). At the end of September, a flood of dinkless frosh swept into Princeton's Commons, in direct violation of an old Nassan tradition. Sophomores rallied round the supper table, linked arms, and shouted "No Dinks, No Dinner!" One freshman hit his head against a Gothic wall, but the fight reeled its way onto the steps of Nassau Hall, where the sophomores overwhelmed the freshmen. The Daily Princetonian listed six freshmen who were subsequently treated...
...University of Pennsylvania has no organized riot, but still worries about the spirit of the freshman class (see editorial on page 5). So does the Ka Leo O Hawaii, which lashed out at a sophomore planning committee for cancelling the annual frosh field day. The cancellation was a "serious blow," said the Ka Leo. "The sophomore committee has unmistakably fumbled the most important stepping stone of the freshmen in their quest of a well-rounded college education...
That fall he went to Yale, where he rowed No. 7 on the frosh crew. Says Acheson, archly: "Those who row No. 7 say it is the most important place." He never put on enough weight to row on the varsity, but another old Groton boy and Yale oarsman, Averell Harriman, admiringly remembers the Dean of those days. Says Harriman, with the air of a man making a lasting character judgment: "He was a good...