Word: freshman
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...SIMPLE question, certainly. Easy enough to answer if we mean to inquire what Harvard is in a legal point of view; but if we wish to know what Harvard is, considered as an educational institution, we find a difference of opinion. "Harvard is a University," says the Freshman, who has been here just long enough to have learned that the modesty which pauses to knock at the Secretary's door is not regarded with favor by that officer. Longer experience, however, often tends to disturb this conviction, and in the mind of an upper-classman it becomes softened into...
...cannot agree entirely with the writer in this week's Crimson in his argument against the desirability of Freshman crews. Upper-classmen are apt to monopolize the places in the club boats; but the men who rowed on the Freshman crew in their Sophomore year are in capital trim to take the places in the boats of the men who have graduated. Again, men in the Freshman class are more sought for to make up a class crew by a captain of their own class than they would be by the club captains, who know what some men are worth...
...contrasted with the old one as possible. "Instead of complexity, there should be simplicity; there should be one sole and simple 'event,' a University boat-race between representative crews of the only two colleges in America whose names have anything more than a local significance. There should be no Freshman race, no single-scull contest, no athletic sports, no base-ball match, no regatta promenade, no glee-club concert; 'side-shows' of every name and description should be absolutely prohibited. In abandoning the unwieldy National Rowing Association, Yale and Harvard should abandon with it the whole 'tournament' theory. In place...
...candidates for the Freshman crew are N. M. Brigham, D. O. Ives, P. Katzenbach, F. W. Smith, W. H. Schwartz, J. W. Wells, C. G. Weld, and A. Crocker, Captain. They are rowing a thousand strokes a day, and running five miles three times a week...
BROWN will not send a Freshman crew to Saratoga. - Courant...