Word: sub-freshman
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...sub-Freshman four years of study, with the advantages of the elective system, offer ample opportunity for initiation, at least, to all the principal branches of knowledge. The time appears adequate for the attainment of something in each department, and a little instruction from each of the most learned professors. When, however, three fourths of the course are passed, he finds to his disappointment that he has attained very much less than three fourths of what he estimated he should receive from his four years' work. The expected and the realized result are far from being equal. Another four years...
...meerschaum, to write an article for the Advocate, to dress for an evening engagement. All of these things he used to tell us in his Advocate articles were done by him; in fact, were the highest aims of a Cambridge life. Such a hero as he seemed to all sub-Freshman subscribers...