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Word: freshman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Advertiser, speaking of the Harvard-Yale Freshman football match, says, "Yale was victorious over Harvard by superior muscle only, for there was no science, or very little of it, displayed by them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 12/5/1879 | See Source »

EVERY student has a right, it is presumed, to invite ladies or friends to come to Memorial as spectators; but when a Freshman stops, turns around in the aisle, and blows kisses at a girl in the gallery, he proves himself to be a fit inmate of the house at Somerville...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 12/5/1879 | See Source »

...last Advocate but one appeared a letter of mine signed "'83," in which I gave voice to a widespread dissatisfaction with the election of the captain of the Freshman crew. I am not a rowing man, but I wrote the letter because I was interested in the success of the crew, and was disgusted with the election. I think no one will misunderstand a natural shrinking from publicity and my signing myself "'83." Yet Mr. Crawford, in his letter to the last Crimson, chose to assume that I was actuated by some mean motive in the matter, and was trying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 12/5/1879 | See Source »

...Crawford thinks that I referred to him. He is mistaken. He must surely know the two I did refer to. When Mr. Crawford says that one of those challenged was an excellent oar, he proves that his opinion is not "worth contradiction." For a man to say that a Freshman of a month's standing could be an excellent oar, as we understand rowing here, is absurd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 12/5/1879 | See Source »

...article on Shakspere's two methods of suggesting time, as shown in Othello, and several short pieces on different subjects. The editors think we ought to have some new college songs, in which desire every one will agree with them who has the misfortune to room next to a Freshman who thinks "Naughty Clara" is the latest thing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGES. | 12/5/1879 | See Source »

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