Possible Clues:

• Turow memoir subtitled "The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School"
• Travelling feature in America?
• First-year J.D. candidate
• 1977 memoir set at Harvard
• Like Ogden Nash's lama, in a poem
• Like Nash's lama, in verse
• Early Turow book
• Certain freshman
• Scott Turow book about Harvard Law School
• Travelling feature in America, not Britain?