Word: freshman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...practice every afternoon the first and second elevens play against each other on one field, while the candidates for the freshman team, of whom there are about thirty, practice on the other...
...Freshman will report at 3, sharp, to Carpenter, '88, who will coach them...
There are fourteen candidates for the four backs on the freshman eleven...
...unfortunately these abuses are apt to come. Yearly, to be sure, they grow less and less, and this certainly is progress in the right direction. What is desirable now is that they should be entirely abandoned. There is no manliness in serving notice of a punch upon an unsuspecting freshman, and certainly as little credit in drinking at his expense. The excess that is sometimes seen in the yard, however, is unpardonable. Not satisfied with the exhilaration of the rush itself, a few-we are glad to say, a few-seek pleasure in making conspicious their own bad taste...
...will be seen by the list of freshmen published today, the incoming class of Ninety-three is considerably larger than any previous freshman class. This fact certainly, taken by itself, is a gratifying sign of Harvard's growing prosperity. Unfortunately for all concerned, however, numbers pure and simple are no criterion of a class's merit, and this it will be well for Ninety-three to remember. The opportunities and obligations which you now find yours are strange. You have never enjoyed the freedom or the advantages which are now thrust upon you, and it is more than possible that...