Word: freshmen
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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PETITIONS granted February 17: Seniors, 20; Juniors, 25; Sophomores, 26; Freshmen, 59. The Semi-annuals account for the falling off in the number of petitions of the three upper classes...
...Columbia Freshmen have voted to let the Captain of the University pick out their class crew, and that the crew shall choose its own captain...
...meeting of the Freshman Class on Wednesday evening last an acceptance was read from the Columbia Freshmen of the challenge to row an eight-orared, straightaway race with coxswains, time to be agreed upon hereafter. The Columbia Freshmen also accepted the suggestion of New London as a suitable place, and the race will, therefore, be rowed there. The President of the class was authorized to appoint a committee of three to arrange all matters pertaining to the race...
...LETTER appeared in last week's Advocate censuring the fact that the Freshmen had reconsidered their vote to challenge Cornell, and had ended in challenging Columbia, and that they had done it at the advice of the Executive Committee. That they did n't stand a sure chance of winning ought not to be any cause for not challenging, but there are other reasons. Cornell, taking into account the present relations between the colleges, might consider it a sort of apology for what she calls not fair play, but we have no apology to make, since the Executive Committee have...
...test their prowess against that of non-collegiate amateurs. It is probable, also, that a fourth prize will be offered, in the college regatta, for six-oared boats rowed by class crews, for it is believed that such a race would have many advantages over one confined exclusively to Freshmen. The spring regattas which are always held at Yale and Columbia, generally at Cornell and Wesleyan, and often at Bowdoin, Brown, Princeton, Williams, and other colleges, consist largely of six-oared races between class crews; and the victors of these several occasions (perhaps Juniors at Yale, Sophomores at Cornell...