Word: freshmen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Columbia freshmen have refused to row Yale, '92, next June in a separate race, but will enter a three-cornered race with Harvard and Yale, if Harvard will consent. The Yale News, in speaking of this, says: "It would seem that the proposition of a three-cornered race would be willingly accepted by Harvard, as she would still row but one race and at the same time have an opportunity which she can not but desire of meeting the Yale freshman crew...
...decided practically in the same way this year as last. In the opinion of our boating men there is not room enough on the New London course for three boats to race with equal advantages. Harvard would be willing to meet the Yale freshman crew, but this year our freshmen must beat Columbia, has beaten us in the last two years and this year we can not take any chance that will be to our disadvantage...
These lectures, though intended especially for freshmen, are open to the public...
...events of Friday may be explained by the fact that the freshmen had orders tomorrow very easily, because they had a hard row on Thursday and were expected to take a long one on Saturday. The University crew, I am told, were rowing as hard as they could...
Attendance at recitations is optional at Cornell, Michigan and Johns Hopkins. At Amherst and Wesleyan nineteenths of the recitations must be attended. At Yale eighteen cuts are allowed sophomores and freshmen and twenty-four to seniors and juniors. At Dartmouth twenty-five cuts are allowed and at Williams thirty...