Word: freshmen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Sophomore class of Boston University instead of "rushing" the freshmen give them a reception in one of the buildings. After everyone has shaken hands with everyone else all partake amicably of a carefully prepared collation...
This is the day which of all days in the college year was devoted in times past to the exercise of systematic terrorism on the part of the Sophomores towards the Freshmen and the honored customs, once so faithfully carried out, are vividly brought before our minds by the epithet even now applied to this first Monday of our year, namely "bloody"-and epithet which is one of our inheritances from our ancestors. The term has lost its ancient meaning and significance. We do not regret that the days of hazing, of pitched battle between the classes, of unseemly rioting...
...Freshmen were unusually fortunate in drawing rooms this year, a large number having been allotted to them...
...Yale rush the freshmen were victorious, but the sophomores carried off the honors in the wrestling match...
...arrangement of recitations, and to bewilder the student at the latitude of his possible selections," while at Harvard the unfortunate undergraduate is "practically turned out to grass, to nibble at his own sweet will." The Mail and Express, like a stern parent, suggests in the case of freshmen, that instead of placing the divining rod in the hand of that precious youth, it would be more fitting to apply it elsewhere. While we can hardly agree to all these opinions, there is nevertheless much good sense in this, and we feel that they do not apply to us only because...