Word: freshmanic
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Freshman Nine beat the "Cambridge High School," on April 29, by a score...
...Freshman Nine played the "Newtons" at Newton, April 20, and was beaten by a score...
ACCORDING to a member of the Class of '81 who has just returned from Cornell, matters there are in a condition which should greatly encourage our Freshman Crew. The Cornell men have not yet been on the water, and for the last week or so they have hardly trained at all, being apparently satisfied, by what they saw in our papers, that they would either gain an easy victory or not have to row. Their weights, as printed in the Advocate, gave a somewhat false impression, as they were all weighed in their clothes. All this certainly ought to cheer...
...Freshman class, we suppose, originally got its name from the fact that it is those amiable new-comers who refresh the weariness of college routine, and prevent our suffering from any possible monotony, by their eagerness and energy in striking out into new and original paths. The Class of '81 has just furnished us with a new proof of this freshness - we use the word in no invidious, but in a complimentary sense - by their organization of a "Glass Ball Club." We heartily welcome this new addition to college sports, and wish success to the ball-shooters...
...studying mineralogy to improve his eyesight. Heaven knows there's need of improvement, for he is near-sighted, cross-eyed, and, according to Dr. Jeffries, color-blind. I don't elect Chemistry; in fact, I know so little about it that at the dinner-table, when the Freshman who has heard Cook's lectures asks me to "approximate the H2O," I stare stupidly at him, and cannot understand that he wishes me to pass him the water...