1973 movie set at Harvard, with 'The'

• First trail
• Degree seeker's ordeal
• 1973 Houseman film (with "The")
• Altering a single letter, strong grip secretary's taken on bureaucratic nightmare
• Film for which John Houseman won an Oscar, with "The" (1864-1873)
• Houseman TV series, with "The"
• Effort toward a law degree
• Law school, so it's said

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A cross-country race in which a trail of torn-up paper marks the trail 2 (context by extension English) An administration process involving cross-references between many documents; the following of a paper trail