Word: freshmen
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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BEFORE the arrangements for Class Day have been entirely made I wish to call the attention of the Committee to one matter, which caused a good deal of complaint last year, and which many hope to see changed this year: I mean the excluding of Freshmen from the exercises around the tree. The reason given for this exclusion last year was that there was not room enough for them, but upper-classmen who were there have told me that there would have been plenty of room. It seems to me that it is very hard to prevent the Freshman class...
...following amounts have been paid up to date. The Freshmen have subscribed $250 less than their share...
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...evident, from an inspection of the list of rooms recently issued from the Bursar's office, that a large number of the best rooms have been reserved for those who enter next year. Now, we have no wish to compel Freshmen to room outside the College Yard, but we do claim that every undergraduate should have a chance to apply for every room not re-engaged. If, after their wants are satisfied, any rooms remain that are not disposed of, the sub-Freshmen should be allowed to draw for them; they should not be allowed to draw for rooms which...
...Freshmen think that the college papers are the originators of opinions. Poor deluded Freshmen! Public opinion, far from being the offspring of the papers, is their master; and, like Sindbad's "Old Man of the Sea," is riding them to death. If they could shake it off, they might stand up straight and grow strong. As it is, they scold vigorously at the instructors and the "marking-system," but turn their backs when some wrong appears at which the majority wink...