Word: freshmanic
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...young Freshman! avoid the company or familiar acquaintance of persons ungirt or of dissolute life...
This was too much for me. To be taken for a Freshman! I could not stand it. I tried to rise to show him gracefully but firmly to the door. He seized me by the coat-collar and shook me until I thought this spirit of 1677 would never...
Perhaps a better plan would be to begin with men of the Freshman class who shall not be expected to row in races till the Junior year. This would give them time to mature as to physique, and I deprecate, strongly, the practice of racing colts...
...usurping the right of the author of "Letters to a Freshman," I shall here offer a piece of advice to the receptive minds of the members of that class. Gentle Freshman, be not afraid of the examiner, for he is not as terrible as he looks. You know that you will not be called up in your Greek to-day, for it was only yesterday that you made such frightful work of it. Brown, Smith, and Jones - specimen bricks, pride of the instructor's heart, who have read up all their Grote - will be the unlucky ones...
...doing our papers; such as, if we found them easy, not to do them as well as we could, since the men (how we swelled up at the word!) who do their admittance papers the best are sure to be called up very often at the beginning of the Freshman year, and all the rest of the rigmarole which befits the newly fledged Sophomore when discoursing to those who are inferiors by a year...