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the best. All felt a little strange, though, at attending a class in New Lecture Hall with four hundred other people, having to get this part of their college education through a mic- rophone. As the weeks passed, other interests besides the academic were developed. Freshman mixers with Radcliffe and Wellesley became more frequent, although it seemed to him that most of the males attending didn't look like fresh- men. When he heard the boy who cut in on him at one mixer say distinctly he was in Leverett House, the freshman felt a little peeved. The food in the Union was not like home, X-f4rP 7',kv ,A in Q., . 5 .- vv'.nlifv.:... W Q -' ' ','-f- ' Anrl-S.' J fff-gs -' - 1 but few complained seriously. If the hard- boiled eggs often dripped when the shells were cracked, at least milk was plentiful, and the cranberry sauce with the turkey on Sundays helped make the meal more palatable. Some, however, found the incentive of a home-cooked meal enough to warrant a call to a previously forgotten relative, whose name had been hast- ily scribbled as a good bet by well-meaning aunts back home. There were less enioyable aspects of the first few months. The torture known as the step-test imposed itself, and papers required early in the term seemed to be graded with a vengence. P.T. credits three afternoons a week were particularly annoying, and the man with the black book seemed to take delight in forgetting each man's name. Room-mates came and went. Some began to go to labs a few days a week, while others seemed to do nothing at all. A few eager men had not even waited for the Crimson to an- nounce the opening competition, but after registration raced from Memorial Hall to Plymp- ton Street, intending to start work right away. Most took things more slowly, though as the days passed, the activities that Harvard of- fered presented themselves for acceptance and participation, or for indifference. As the freshman's initial period of intro- duction to Harvard came to a close, each man had gone his own way, yet within a few months elements of community did appear. From puz- zled newcomers there developed men who, if still uncertain about their futures, were at least sure by now that Harvard's reputation for academic excellence had something to offer. There was a lot in the brains and bookshelves at Harvard, if only the student had the time and the desire to dig in and digest. There was no rah-rah spirit, but each freshman began to feel that Harvard belonged to him and was a part of him, it was not iust a name to be dragged out and hoisted before every stranger he wanted to impress. Socially, the Harvard freshman came into his own, too, at least he began to realize what was going on. Hasty Pudding was no longer merely a synonym for minute tapioca, and many freshmen appeared with striped lengths of silk hanging from their necks which heralded the superficial aspects of the transformation from high school gradu- ate to Harvardman. Slowly, the freshman began to feel at home in the College that before had been something respected and well thought of, but for him something distant and impersonal. Once again, Harvard had completed the painful task of absorbing, assimilating the converging streams of eager young men.
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:gl-iii' Having heard that freshman advisors ranged from professors to deans, the freshman was a little wary at first, but the first firm handshake convinced him that the advisor meant to be friendly, even if at times he appeared to be busy with his own problems. Still, as the con- centration, distribution and Gen. Ed. re- quirements were rattled off in quick order, as if the freshman had lived with them all his life, he shifted uneasily in his chair and won- dered if he would be able to take Engineering 309 in the freshman year after all. Pre-con- ceived plans were thrown overboard for Soc. Sci. 3 and Nat. Sci. 4, and some course called, frighteningly, Gen. Ed. Ahf. When it was all over, the freshman was very confused, but was solaced by the thought that everyone else must be having the same trouble. Most were, but there were differences in getting adjusted. Some familiar with the tech' nique of well-phrased obscurity, felt right at home when Professor Eliot explained, in the first lecture in Gov. 1, the differences between totalitarianism and democracy. Others winced and wrote down epistomol . . . Ccheckl in their notebooks, while some had not yet de- cided whether the outline or the running paragraph method of taking notes would be
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