Word: prefrosh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WHEN I VISITED Harvard during prefrosh weekend, I travelled with the herd from one lecture class to another. I saw Professor of English Marjorie Garber talk about cross-dressing in Othello. I heard Joseph S. Nye, Ford Foundation professor of international security, explain why international relations is better explained by checkers than by dominoes...
...about time. I started collecting material for this piece at my prefrosh picnic. "You'll get more dates Freshman Week than you'll get the rest of your Harvard career," a grizzled senior promised...
...first, students need to shake up the administration. We would have preferred that MSA had not moved the date of the boycott to avoid staging it during prefrosh week. By exposing one of Harvard's most shameful shortcomings to prospective students, MSA could have put even more pressure on the administration. Nevertheless, we endorse the boycott and encourage all students to participate...
April is the busiest month of the year for University tour guides, as throngs of recently-admitted prefrosh join the usual tourist crowd to get a glimpse of the college where they might--or might not--decide to spend their next four years...
Consequently, prefrosh who are eager to learn what their experience at Harvard might be like often find the tour a limited resource, Cashdollar says. While student activities and classes and house life are mentioned, they are often squeezed in between descriptions of buildings and semi-historical anecdotes...