Word: freshman
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Advocate, it seems has been taking an unfair advantage of us. A Freshman has refused to subscribe for the Crimson because he prefers to take a weekly paper...
...instance, the Freshman who has had his leading-strings cut that he might come to college, dubs our University a "hole," either contrasting with the pure and good influences of home the vice and debauchery which he has been told exist here, or because he wishes you to think that he has tasted more deeply of the pleasures of life elsewhere than it is possible to do in Cambridge. Then, again, your man of the world calls it a "hole," - meaning, I fancy, that we live in a provincial, slow, one-horse sort of a place. If you tell this...
...that it has been decided that there will be no Freshman race with Yale this year, the disposition of the money subscribed for their crew must be considered by the Freshman class. It is a subject which does not need great consideration. The money was subscribed to support our interests in a contest with Yale, and the natural disposition of it would be to place it in the hands of the treasurer of the H. U. B. C. We cannot imagine any objections to this course. It is well known that the support of the University crew will...
...find time, amid all the work of the Junior year, to write four forensics and to write and rewrite six themes, is by no means easy, especially when the subjects assigned are of the abstruse nature now coming into fashion. The writing of a few themes in the Freshman year would give instruction which there is little reason for postponingtill the Sophomore year. The Freshmen, it is true, have at present as much work required of them as they can perform; but if another suggestion of the Committee, proposing to lessen the amount of mathematics, be adopted, room could easily...
...refusal of the Yale Freshmen to row our Freshman class next summer is not to be seriously regretted. The prospect of such a race serves, of course, to draw out the Freshmen able to row, and the existence of a good Freshman crew is in a measure a training-school for future University oars. On the other hand, the Freshman race interferes with the University race. Now that we are entering on a series of races with Yale, and with Yale alone, all interfering objects should be set aside. The duel between the principals should take place without minor contests...