Word: freshmen
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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This vote raises college-rowing to a higher position than before, and gives it a more dignified tone. Resolutions were then passed providing for two sets of colors as prizes for the winning University and Freshmen crews, and prohibiting any colleges not represented in the coming regatta from voting at the next annual meeting. A Regatta Committee was then chosen, consisting...
THAT exasperating puzzle, the Tabular View, has lately become the means of a very profitable business venture. Leaving out of account the sums that Freshmen volunteer to pay for the gilded sheets, the amount received from advertisers must be considerable. Let no one, however, be so far tempted by this as to forget that he is bound in honesty to render a fair equivalent for their money to the business men of Boston and Cambridge. Those who prepared the Advertiser's Tabular View at the beginning of each half-year were able, no doubt, to influence the advertisers without deception...
GRADUATES often complain that they never received adequate instruction in that most important branch, Elocution, while in college, and now feel their deficiency when called upon to speak in public. The fact that out of the twenty or twenty-five Freshmen selected as meriting the right even to compete for the ten Lee prizes, only six received any, clearly shows that an ability to read common prose well and understandingly is a rare accomplishment among them...
...looks with reverence; and although it does not by any means follow that he who contributes frequently will attain an eminence equal to theirs in his after life, yet while here he is sure by his efforts to win the respect of his associates. Most men come here as Freshmen, with but a slight idea of literary excellence. It may be said, to be sure, that even here no high standard is set before them. But the standard of a college paper, if not the highest, is one at least which all who write are endeavoring to raise. Probably...
...Argus mourns the vitiated tastes of the Middletowners, who patronize "Combination Troupes" and "Negro Minstrels" five nights in the week, but fail to appreciate a musical entertainment of real merit. It informs us also that, inspired by the sight of the cups won by the Freshmen, Middletown has voted a good crew for the next University race. A boat-house will be erected in the spring...