Word: freshman
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Coming fresh from the untutored wilds of the West, South, or that geographically uncertain and ever-receding location which goes under the non-committal name of "Down East," a slight touch of indigenous brogue in a Freshman is excusable - for three months or so. A generous critic might allow him a year to wear off such gaucherie. But how can the new-comer fail at once to notice the wide discrepancy between his pronunciation and that of educated people, if, of course, he be of ordinary intelligence? His only safe course is to turn to his Worcester and abide...
...twenty men in the third division of the Freshman class, nineteen have been warned for low standing...
...EVERETT will resume his Classical lectures to the Freshman class on Tuesday, March 13, according to the Tabular View...
...made up his mind to spar, it may as well be he as any one else. The Freshmen, too, have been very backward in joining; they seem to share the general fear of an assessment of enormous size: this is entirely a mistake. Out of last year's Freshman class over one hundred and fifty joined the association, and the money got by their initiation fees was sufficient to pay all debts, and leave a surplus of about $17 in the treasury. Surely the present Freshman class, which is nearly as large as '79, when it entered, ought to furnish...
...Freshman are having Latin, Greek, and Mathematics, with which, by the way, they have been regaled the whole year thus...