Word: verdant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fate that has made us Harvard men of today and not of two hundred years ago. The freshmen had a hard time in those days. Now, in their own opinion at least, they are of great importance; no one molests them, and they are permitted to lead their verdant life in peace. But stranger indeed were the laws against freshmen in 1675: "No freshman shall wear his hat in the college yard unless it rains, hails or snows, provided he be on foot and have not both hands full" ; "No freshman shall speak to any member of the upper classes...
...Some verdant freshman has painted a large "90" on the outside of the boat-house along side of the "88," which has been there since the races last May. Hopeful '90 doesn't appear to fully appreciate that a race ought to have been won before his efforts with the brush were essayed...
...cane-spree, an institution peculiarly Princeton's own, is a thing of the past and the verdant freshman now rejoiceth much. Special regulations were adopted this year to the effect that no foot-ball men should be allowed to spree. The freshmen, by superior coaching, took the first two canes, the light-weight and the middle-weight. The struggle for the heavy-weight cane was a stubborn contest; after working hard for one hour and forty minutes, neither man was able to wrest it from his opponent and the cane was divided, the freshmen thus getting 2 1-2 canes...
...understood that a certain verdant freshman actually carried a cane into the class meeting Thursday...
...rites of the college, for until the moment it became officially known that official objection had been made, the most brilliant visions of a hilarious class meeting followed by a rush, resulting in the complete annihilation of the officious sophomore class, had danced in the happy imaginations of the verdant freshmen. But the president and faculty, with prudent foresight, anticipated the results of an evening meeting and told the committee appointed by the freshmen to take charge of the matter, that the meeting must be held in the afternoon. This is, of course, a sore disappointment to the entire sophomore...