Word: freshman
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Sophomores will petition the Faculty to allow them to give out elections to the Freshman class; and the Lionia and brothers will probably be re-established...
...Freshman Nine promises to be an exceedingly good one this year...
...plan by choosing their Junior studies without regard to those that they will select for their Senior year. Hence it is that we find men taking Classics as Sophomores, Modern Languages as Juniors, and finishing with Natural Science when Seniors. The remedy is simple. At the end of the Freshman year, the student, instead of sending in a list of electives for the Sophomore year, should choose electives for the entire remainder of his course. Each of these lists should be carefully examined by members of the Faculty to see that each student has chosen a course of study...
...Smith 4, Brigham 5, Schwartz 6, Jacobs 7, and Bancroft 8. Various changes have since been made in the forward part of the boat. From the men named, and from F. Le Moyne, Crocker, and Littauer, the crew will be selected. The other candidates have been distributed among the Freshman and Club crews...
...HAVE always believed that one of the most important advantages arising from that palladium of our college liberties, the elective system, was that we should be allowed to select the direction in which to grow wise. I fondly believed that after our Freshman year we were supposed to know what we wanted to learn, and that the learned professor would do his best to give us instruction in that subject and that subject only. For instance, I imagined that when a man took our Fine Arts elective he was supposed to be consumed with a burning desire for useful knowledge...