Word: freshmen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...question of the challenge of the Yale freshmen to a boat-race with our freshmen is discussed by the Yale News of Tuesday and in commenting upon our position in the matter, that paper says...
...London course at second hand, since everybody who knows the course is aware that there is room for the North Atlantic Squadron on the last two miles. The difficulty about the unequal velocity of the tide could be avoided by moving the course eastward. The fact that Harvard's freshmen crew of '89 obtained a very lame victory, in fact no victory at all, over Yale's superior crew did not seem to weigh very heavily on the conscience of the Harvard men when they refused '90's challenge. 'Yet they cannot throw Columbia over because '90 lost the race...
...suggestion in yesterday's CRIMSON in regard to the upper class men practicing with the freshmen eleven, is a good one. There is no good reason why this custom should not be inaugurated here. Men do not seem to realize that a freshman team is one of the integral parts of our athletic system and that it has to win or lose like any other team. The success of the freshman should be the interest of the college at large, and '88, '89 and '90 should consider it their duty to see that nothing is left undone which might affect...
...eleven, to do good work, must practice against a team which will not only play hard, but will score occasionally. Such practice it is the duty of the other classes to give. Men who have the welfare of the college at heart, should come out and play against the freshmen. It is to be regretted that the class games had to be given up as they would have furnished valuable training...
There is a widespread feeling in Harvard that when a man reaches the supreme dignity of the higher class it is derorogatory to his dignity to have anything to do with, or to take any interest in, the freshmen class. Such a feeling is dangerous to our athletic life, and if we are to regain our lost position in the intercollegiate sports, which once more seems probable, we must turn aside these silly indifferences and each do what he can for our college...