Word: freshman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have received the following communication which attempts an explanation of the action of the freshman nine at New Haven. We publish it for the facts about the management and because it may in a measure explain the action of the freshman pitcher who was most severely censured in yesterday's CRIMSON...
...must speak of another subject in regard to Ninety-two, one that is of the utmost importance and involves the whole freshman class. If eight hundred dollars is not subscribed by the class within one week, the freshman crew cannot go to New London. The class has not subscribed at all readily and there has been a manifest indifference to the need of the crew for money. Up to the present time but half of the necessary amount has been obtained. The fault is not with the management which is making every possible effort to raise the money, but with...
...record, has not given the college reason to be proud of it in any respect save in its football victory last fall! After the detestable action of its nine at New Haven, comes the announcement that the class will not support the crew. We are accustomed to regard the freshman class as one to recruit the ranks of our 'varsity teams, to fill places of importance in after college years, to keep up Harvard's reputation. But of what use is a class that has in its freshman year learned no lessons of earnestness, or class and college loyalty...
...would bat him all over the field. Too much censure cannot be given to him for the part he played in the game. If he had made the slightest effort, the Harvard men present would have supported him. As it was they could not be expected to. The Harvard freshman captain, when he found out that the game must be played should have had his men play their best, even though defeat were certain. Yale got six runs in the first inning This was the only inning in which Harvard made the slightest effort to play. In the following...
...present freshman class nine has certainly distinguished itself in a way disgraceful to the college. The men on the nine were only obeying orders when making no effort to play, and so the blame is not greatly to be given to them. The game was called at the end of the sixth inning on account of the pouring rain. The score...