freshman
noun
a student in the first year of the course at a university, college, or high school.
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The last person to whom my friend deemed it necessary to introduce me, was a Mr. Garret Cudmore, from the Reeks of Kerry, lately matriculated to all the honors of freshmanship in the Dublin university.
From The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 2 by Charles James Lever