Word: freshmen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEAR SIR: The freshman class of Yale hereby challenge the Harvard Freshmen class to an eight-oared shell race, with coxwains, two miles straight away. The race to take place at New London within a week before the race to be rowed between the Harvard and Yale University crews. A more definite date to be settled upon hereafter. The challenge will remain open until...
...members of freshmen training for the crew is only...
...held for the purpose of developing new men in this event. There were a large number of entries, and the practice was a great help to the candidate of the Mott Haven team. This year, besides all but one of the old men, there are quite a number of freshmen who show up well in the high jump, and to encourage them prizes will be offered in this event also. The contests will take place weekly and will be handicap contests, as will the putting of the shot and throwing of the hammer...
...ball fields there are a couple of curious old sign-boards which freshmen are won't to look upon with awe, but still with a certain satisfaction. They refer to ball-playing and some of the other accomplishments of the American youth as practised by those who are not members of Harvard University. If we remember rightly, these same boards contain upon them words of terrible meaning-something about "prosecution to the full extent of the law." For the benefit of those who have been astonished at the audacity of such extreme measures, we would say that long years...
...last June are still in college. They are Carter, Gill, Stevenson (captain), Wilcox and Woodruff. Caldwell and Rogers are both back, but both positively decline to row. The new men are Cross, '89; Clawson, '89 S.; Wells, '89; Janus, '90; Newell, '90; Burroughs, '89 S., and a number of freshmen. Several of these are foot-ball men and will not commence rowing until the foot-ball season is over...