Word: freshmen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hearty support accorded to the 1923 basketball team is an evidence that interest in this sport has revived. Its organization among Freshmen is but a step in the direction of establishing it as a Varsity sport. The formation of class teams should come next. That such action would be favored is shown by the number of men who played last year on the Randolph courts. Without the incentive of a schedule or regular practice, there were always enough players on hand to form two teams; at times as many as four or five...
...plan of continuing rowing throughout the winter was originally devised for the Freshmen to satisfy their physical exercise requirements, but the new system has proved so popular among the upperclassmen that it has been enlarged to include all men who want the instruction. Many members of last year's Freshmen and University crews have been reporting regularly, and the interest shown in the present system will probably mean its permanent establishment here...
Squash, boxing, swimming, basketball, wrestling, handball, fencing, bowling, and indoor baseball claim their devotees in a ratio somewhat similar to the order given above. Mr. Schrader of the Physical Training Department also conducts four sections in general athletics for Freshmen every Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoon. It is the plan of the department to enroll every member of 1923 in some organized sport, preferably one whose attraction and benefit will continue in after life, rather than in a class of calisthenics...
...great majority of the Freshmen, however, have entered these regular sports, either as candidates for the 1923 team or in the sections practicing under Coaches Anderson, Connoly, Danguy and others. One of the most interesting of the sections is that under Connoly in the boxing room of the Hemenway Gymnasium. Usually over fifty men are sparring with an imaginary partner at the same time with the result that in the neighborhood of 150 men report there for glove work at least three times a week...
...Tree Pool, in particular, swimmers abound. Mr. Harry Elport is there daily to instruct swimmers, but on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday he manages three groups of thirty-five Freshmen learners in addition to the twenty-five who practice for the Freshman team...