Word: freshman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before all however to the freshman coming to college to the graduates of other years returning to the outsider visiting the impression of the University comes in the form of a campus. At Harvard it is called The Yard. The original Yard has expanded its glorious elms dying of the gypsy moth have given place to red oaks or other trees the ancient wooden fence is replaced by delightful wrought iron and brick. Coming out of the subway one crosses riskily the traffic torrent in "Mass" Avenue turns to look across the hurly burly of what was once a quiet...
...great institution carries itself on in Fogg Museum (the new elegance that replaces "Norton's pride" and house beauty of other times); Memorial Hall, where great men in their inconspicuous youth have taken their meals and later in its theatre spoken greatness or received honoring degrees; the Freshman dormitories (Lowell's dream, Lowell's babies), the new school of Business Administration the "spotless town" of the forgotten advertisements made actuality by five Baker millions; Soldiers Field, Higginson's gift its stadium the focus of all conscious competition with other universities; the Medical School and its beneficent brood of hospitals...
During his Freshman year Ticknor was captain and fullback of his first year eleven. Coach Horween switched him to the pivot post however where for two years he has excelled playing along side his brother. It is this back field experience gained at Milton and under Eddie Casey former Freshman coach and now in charge of the backs which has made him such a keen defensive player...
Henry Chauncey '28, assistant dean in charge of the Freshman Class will be the other speaker on the program; humorous entertainment will be furnished by Ellery Sedgewick '32 and W. S. Warner, Jr. '32, magicians. Dean Chauncey and the two magicians were feature entertainers at the Smith Halls smoker, which was held about two weeks ago on the same evening as those in McKinlock and Gore Halls...
Upperclassmen only will be eligible, the Freshman competition having been eliminated. The winner will have his choice of the second assistant managership of any of the sports, the remaining positions to be awarded to the winning candidates according to rank...