Word: classmen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Rowing for upper classmen will be conducted on the informal basis similar to the other sports. With the Freshmen, however, the usual plans are being made, the season probably ending with a race against the Yale freshmen eight the latter part...
...writer understands it, Princeton has no idea of a restoration of the former spectacular displays as staged at the Yale Bowl, at Cambridge, and at Princeton, but, on the contrary, a sane and economical indulgence in games against teams of other colleges. There are now some seven hundred upper classmen in Princeton who, under conditions that have obtained for nearly a year, have been debarred from anything but intramural sport. The freshmen, on the other hand, have been permitted to play against their natural rivals, Yale and Harvard, and have also gone in for contests against preparatory school teams...
...first meeting of candidates for the bayonet team held yesterday in the Randolph Gymnasium, five Freshmen and eight upper-classmen reported. This number is much smaller than was expected, but there will be an opportunity for more to report at the first practice...
Although the small number of upper-classmen back may preclude the possibility of inter-class races, there will probably be a winter carnival as usual in February. Competitions and time-trials for all the candidates will be started after Christmas, coming to a climax in the three-day carnival in which both championship and novice events are held...
...events that have led to the present upheaval. The beginning of the trouble, he stated, dates back to 1861, when the freeing of the serfs opened a path for them into politics. Then the events of the early '90s gave Russia a large and important mass of middle-classmen who were anxious for political power. A gospel of discontent and protest was preached unceasingly and the tendency of Russia was to stretch everything beyond the proper limits...