Word: freshmanic
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Freshman Crew were out in a shell on Friday last for the first time...
...BROWNE has been chosen coxswain of the Freshman crew, in place of Mr. MacVeagh, who has left college on account of sickness...
...member of the Faculty in preventing recently the Sophomore societies from performing parts of their usual initiation, calls for some comment, we think. It has been the custom of these societies for years to shout out in the Delta the names of the first ten elected from the Freshman class, and then, forming in procession, to march through the Yard singing. That the singing is not as rich in harmony as it is in volume is a lamentable fact we are forced to admit; but we can hardly believe that the sensitive nerves of the College were badly shattered. There...
...Freshman year, when I was told to omit the shocking passage in which mention is made of Maecenas' kissing his wife, I did n't see the impropriety of the verses; but I finally found an explanation, - the tutor was unmarried. However, that did n't account for other omissions, so I was forced to suppose that we Freshmen were treated as very young boys, because the tutor did n't think we were yet "men," in spite of our own very decided opinion to the contrary. "Well," said I, "in the electives next year, at any rate, this over...
...those rascally students!" replied the Pump. "It's always my luck. I stand right on the way to Carl's; but the fellows never take any notice of me until they come back from there; and just now one of them took me for a Freshman, and began to haze me. O dear! dear...