Word: sub-freshman
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President Eliot has a paper in the December Educational Review on "Tendencies of Secondary Education." Professor Adams Sherman Hill has an article in the same number on "Sub-Freshman English...
...last story, called "An Arbiter of Destiny," is just what one expects to find in the ordinary college paper; it is childish in plot and composition, and is unpleasantly suggestive of sub-freshman work...
...Harvard Reaction" is a fairly clever sketch of the evolution of the typical Harvard junior, food of sports and the festal rites of Bloody Monday, from the chrysalis of the theorizing and dreaming sub-freshman...
...file of the Nation is to be found a letter from one of the instructors of our French department, which was written to that paper for the purpose of showing with what ingenuity the sub-freshman overcomes obstacles which would appear insurmountable to a mind of ordinary ability. Many of the men whose genius flashes out in the following quotations are now in the junior class, - or possibly in the sophomore class, - for the examples of wild conjecture given below were called forth by a paper in entrance French which was given to candidates for admission a couple of years...
...discriminate between the honest maiden from the rural districts and that Cambridge girl who has not missed the "ring around the tree" for a dozen years. The Cambridge maiden has acquired a taste for college students as a Parisian for absinthe, and can be happy with anything from a sub-freshman to a Divinity student...