Sharply satirizing the '20s craze for campus antics and values, The Freshman sends Harold Lloyd to college, where his eager attempts to assimilate into the sophisticated set are both hilarious and pathetic. Young Harold's transformation from Mr. Nobody to Mr. Touchdown, BMOC, is a path fraught with comedy, and The Freshman contains some of Lloyd's greatest sequences: the dinner jacket which falls apart at precisely the pinnacle of the social season; the football game in which Harold's presence marks the bottom of every pile, until the genius born of frustration creates some revolutionary, one-off plays. (JB)