Word: freshman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Third Freshman scholarship, class of 1891-Bernard M. Allen...
...mass meeting of the Yale freshman class, Tuesday evening, action was taken on athletic constitution recently adopted by Harvard, '92. The rules proposed for the government of Harvard-Yale freshmen baseball and football games, and letters from Mr. Garrison, L. S., and Mr. Folansbee, secretary of Harvard, '92, urging their adoption, were submitted. After discussion the matter was placed in the hands of a committee composed of the captains of the university nine, eleven and crew, and two members of the freshman class. The class is heartily in favor of some arrangement which shall do away with the annual disagreements...
...CONANT.Pictures of the Freshman Glee Club may now be obtained at Pach...
...importance of taking definite action this year is easily seen. That some changes in the conduct of the freshman contests are necessary is very evident. If Yale will accept the changes now, it will do away with most of the trouble next year. It is to be hoped that the committee of upperclassmen will appreciate this and make a favorable report before the end of he term...
...that therefore "the real cause of our lack of superiority in athletics (not our inferiority) is the greater earnestness and higher kind of work done here." The second takes a different ground and attributes our ill success to our social system. It argues that the athletics of the freshman class have their interests turned aside by their election to a sophomore society, "which takes his time and strength away from his athletics." This leads to a state where "athletics are in the hands of a chosen minority-chosen upon a social basis," and demands a reform in our social system...