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freshman week

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noun

  1. a week at the beginning of the school year with a program planned to orient entering students, especially at a college.

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“They didn’t have anything like that at all,” said Andrea Jane Keirstead, a teacher in Farmington, Me., who saw “Love Story” during the 1978 freshman week.

From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2010

With some colleges already opening and others holding freshman week, enrollments were generally up, might set a new record.

From Time Magazine Archive

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