Word: freshmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vermont Academy's powerful eleven downed the Freshmen yesterday by an 8 to 0 score in a game marred by fumbles. Both teams were erratic in handling the ball, particularly at the beginning of the game, when a series of fumbles by both teams led to a safety and Vermont's first score. Later they scored again on a forward pass...
...graduation, I applied to President Eliot for a tutorship in Greek. Tutors in those days were appointed for terms of three years. I was young, inexperienced, and afraid, and undoubtedly made a bad, impression on him. He gave me no encouragement at all. Yet Greek was prescribed to Freshmen and tutors had to be found. The academic year for the upper classes began on Thursday; for Freshmen, some of whom were examined for admission in the last three days of the week, it began on the following Monday. On Saturday half of the Freshmen had not been provided with...
...cross country team defeated Dartmouth Freshmen easily for its third successive victory this season by the score of 19 to 38 over the Freshman course on Charles River yesterday afternoon. R. P. Wesley '33 won the race in the good time of 17 minutes, 58 3-5 seconds, followed closely by F. D. Murphy '33, and Arthur Foote '33, just elected captain of the squad...
...notorious reputation of English A1 must have spread beyond the confines of Cambridge to affright prospective Freshmen. This year sees 170 of the class of 1933 allowed to pursue more interesting fields of knowledge, while their more unfortunate classmates are subjected to the pressure of the educational machine, which is supposed in this particular instance, to turn out the enlightened English student...
...benefit of future chairmen of boards of directors and prospective senators the course is adding some brief instruction in public speaking for the first time this year. The theory behind this move is sound even if the execution may be slightly disconcerting for the freshmen involved. Beyond this slight change the course remains the same unwieldy monster which causes so much lost sleep in the Dormitories along the Charles...