Word: freshman
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...last Freshman class-meeting was called because of the dissatisfaction at the determination to row Cornell, and because it was understood that many of the class had not seen the notices of the previous meeting. After a consultation with the Executive Committee it was thought better to wait and meet Cornell in a University race at some future time, and not to row them now, considering the present misunderstanding which exists between the two colleges, - an opinion which was expressed by two of that committee in the meeting. Then it was unanimously voted to challenge Columbia...
...habit o' tellin' much to the women-folks, they make such a darned gabble." Can't you see here the verdant Freshman or more experienced Soph who has spent his summer with his pretty cousins, and accordingly "understands the ladies...
Then may the playful Freshman cease to drop His cane...
...Saturday last the candidates for the University crew made their first appearance in the Gym. Of the thirteen who have gone into training only four are of last year's crew, and five are from the Freshman class; a fact which speaks encouragingly for the future, if not for the present..... Thus far the men have done a little more than half work, but they will gradually settle down to work of last year. To attempt any estimate of our prospective crew for '79 would be premature and a patent absurdity, and yet there are indications which, though not infallible...
...Freshman I drew a middle entry ground-floor room facing the south, and, spite of the pitying accents and sympathetic glances of my friends, thought myself very well off. I was warned that there were two societies in the entry, but as one was aesthetic and the other anti-atheistic, I concluded I could stand it if they could. I did n't know the vast resources of the human mind when musical...