Hypertext Webster Gateway: "freshmen"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Freshman \Fresh"man\, n.; pl. {Freshmen}.
novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a
student during his fist year in a college or university.
He drank his glass and cracked his joke, And freshmen
wondered as he spoke. --Goldsmith.
{Freshman class}, the lowest of the four classes in an
American college. [ U. S.]
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