4.1178 Final Words on First Years (3/24)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 26 Mar 91 00:28:48 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 1178. Tuesday, 26 Mar 1991.


(1) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 91 23:16:50 AST (8 lines)
From: RHIN000 <RHINE@UNB.CA>
Subject: Freshpeople

(2) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 91 05:22:51 -0600 (8 lines)
From: Alan D Corre <corre@csd4.csd.uwm.edu>
Subject: Freshmen

(3) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 91 04:46 PST (8 lines)
From: Jack Kolb <IKW4GWI@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU>
Subject: Re: 4.1169 Summary: Fresh?

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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 91 23:16:50 AST
From: RHIN000 <RHINE@UNB.CA>
Subject: Freshpeople

What's wrong with the term we used at college for the
first-year students: NEOPHYTE. Shortens nicely to NEO.

--Tony Rhinelander, Fredericton, NB, Canada
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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 91 05:22:51 -0600
From: Alan D Corre <corre@csd4.csd.uwm.edu>
Subject: Freshmen

I notice that Henry Rogers quotes the collective "Frosh". This term was
in use at the University of Pennsylvania when I was there in the fifties,
and I wondered at the time how it had been created. Does anyone have an
explanation?
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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 91 04:46 PST
From: Jack Kolb <IKW4GWI@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU>
Subject: Re: 4.1169 Summary: Fresh?

First year student (etc. ) was almost de regieur at the institutions I
had some familiarity with (Univ. of Chicago, Univ. of Virginia, UCLA).
Only Yale held out for "freshman, sophomore," etc.