Word: freshmanic
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...result often unsettles conviction and produces "a sceptical turn of mind which is the more hopeless because it thinks itself rational and scientific." In Philosophy 3, the Critique of Judgment is recommended in place of Shopenhauer and Hartmann. The Committee think that Junior Logic might be removed to the Freshman year, and even to the preparatory schools, were they what they should be. In Ethics they noticed "an appearance of slightness and vagueness which is perhaps inseparable from the mental condition of many of the young men." Forensics they discovered to be only another name for themes, and they found...
...requirements for admission have been raised in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics; and French has been added to the work of the Freshman year...
...Although the standard for entrance to Wellesley has been raised, the present Freshman class has double the size that the last had. Over three thousand volumes were added to the library last year...
...observe the anxiety and curiosity with which the now admitted Freshman takes up his first special paper. On his appearance at lunch with what admiration is he regarded by those who have yet to pass the ordeal? And how the paper is passed from hand to hand with wonder; how eagerly he buys a scrap-book to preserve the precious relic...
...candidates for the Freshman crew number over twenty, and the captain, Mr. Ware, will have no lack of material from which to select a first-rate crew. Before Christmas a challenge is to be sent to the Yale Freshman for a race to be rowed on the same day and at the same place as the University race, and in case this challenge is accepted, the candidates will leave the College gymnasium, where they are now at work from half after four until half after five each afternoon, for the boat-house gymnasium. The candidates run three nights...