Word: freshmen
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...boarders at Memorial Hall are distributed as follows: Seniors, 90; Juniors, 130; Sophomores, 161; Freshmen, 164; Law School, 65; Divinity School, 14; Episcopal Theological School, 12; Medical School, 5; Instructors...
Within the last fortnight, also, I have learned with regret that the Harvard and Columbia Freshmen have agreed to row an eight-oared three-mile race "at New London," though the date thereof has not yet been decided upon, and that the challenge for this was sent before the Crimson published my letter recommending that the proposed Freshman race between Harvard and Cornell be appointed for some other locality. If it is too late now to persuade the Freshmen to keep away from the Thames course at a time when their presence there may disturb the very delicately balanced arrangements...
...competition of all ambitious Freshman crews, and so render unnecessary the arrangement of special Freshman races. According to a letter of its secretary, dated January 24, and published in the Cornell Era, the N. A. A. O. would be glad to offer flags for a race which the Freshmen of Cornell might arrange to row with Columbia, Harvard, or any other college, as the first event in its regatta for the three challenge cups. I suggest, therefore, that as some of the Harvard Freshmen appear dissatisfied because their proposed match with Cornell was broken off, they agree to compete with...
...University eight or four from Harvard cannot be persuaded to compete for the challenge cups of the N. A. A. O., and if the Harvard Freshmen do not care to arrange a race with their Cornell rivals under its auspices, and if they do make a good showing in their race with Columbia, I venture to suggest to them the propriety of boldly entering for one or both of the challenge cups. That their doing so would not necessarily by presumptuous or hopeless will be made evident by the following record. In 1872 the winning Wesleyan Freshmen made better time...
...Senior class, 59 are excused from prayers; out of 174 Juniors, 66 are excused; out of 218 Sophomores, 87 are excused; out of 227 Freshmen, 75 are excused. Thus, out of 719 men in the four classes, 287, or nearly three sevenths, are excused from prayers. The Sophomores have the largest proportion excused, the Juniors come next, the Freshmen next, and the Seniors last...