The Freshman 1925

Mordaunt Hall, New York Times: This is a regular Harold Lloyd strip of fun, which is made all the more hilarious by introducing something like suspense in the sequences on the football field. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Lloyd's films are prose where Keaton's were poems, but gag for gag, Lloyd was the funniest screen comic of his time. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Lloyd can't compete with Chaplin and Keaton, but he perfectly embodied the can-do energy of the 1920s, and few things are quite as funny as his bespectacled, apple-pie face twisted by a panic that was always justified. Read more

TIME Magazine: Mr. Lloyd could be funny playing an undisturbed mummy. Simply this: The Freshman is not so funny as earlier of the comedian's adventures. Read more

Edmund Wilson, The New Republic: Lloyd has never been a very good actor; he has been a dummy for comic devices. And we are not much moved by the scene in The Freshman in which he learns at last that he has been the butt of his fellow students, instead of, as he has believed, their hero. Read more