Word: freshmen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...year each crew entered into some sort of training during the fall. During the football season, the '89 crew formed itself into a scrub football team, while '90, '91 and '92 rowed on the river until the floats were taken up. Since the vacation all the crews except the freshmen have taken advantage of the open weather and have been practicing on the river...
...freshmen worked in the gymnasium until the tank was finished, and are rowing there three times a week. Walter Alexander, '87, stroke of last year's 'varsity, has been coaching them, but they have not as yet secured a regular coach. The men who are trying for the crew are, with a few exceptions, of good size, and their principal faults are due to their lack of experience. They all lack control of their bodies, and hence their rowing is very irregular. The body swing is carried too far at both ends and results in "slumping" at the finish...
DEAR SIR:- The Harvard freshmen do hereby challenge the Columbia freshman class to an eight-oared two-mile straightaway race to be rowed at New London next June, date to be mutually agreed upon hereafter...
...course of eight lectures on Hygiene is being delivered to the Yale freshmen by Dr. Seaver...
...gymnasium last evening. Only eleven men presented themselves, and of these only three have ever pulled on a tug-of-war team. The outlook at present, therefore, for a good team is far from encouraging. It shows an utter lack of spirit and enthusiasm on the part of the freshmen when out of a class of three hundred only eleven men are willing to try for positions on the team. The men trying for the crew are not allowed to try for the tug but in the rest of the class it seems impossible that there should not be more...