Word: freshmen
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- The intolerable behavior of a certain few freshmen in class rooms has recently become so noticeable as to warrant an exposure of their ungentlemanly conduct. The nuisance of which I speak consists chiefly in reading and rattling newspapers and carrying on conversations distinctly audible to every one about. These actions are not only annoying to the instructors, but they are also the cause of much discomfort to every one else in the room. The men who behave thus cannot be aware of the injustice of their conduct, and the one way to suppress such proceedings...
...occasion a short time ago to criticize severely the ungentlemanly conduct of certain freshmen in Prof. Lovering's course. We find by a communication which appears in to-day's issue that this loose behavior is not by any means confined to the course in physics, but pervades to a lesser extent several other freshman courses. Some freshmen evidently lack the wit and common sense to understand that because they are not forced to act in a certain manner during lectures, that they are perfectly free to abuse this privilege howsoever they see fit, "from rolling pennies down the aisle...
...Berkeley premiums, what we at Harvard would call "deturs," are given at Yale to freshmen for exceptional excellence in Latin composition The means of giving these prizes is supplied from the income of a farm given by Bishop Berkeley to the college in 1733, which has been leased for a long period of years. The examination set is always some connected passage of Latin prose. Last year it took the shape of a letter from one college friend to another. The number of prizes is not fixed, depending on the quality of the work offered, but generally six first...
...SATURDAY.English Literature. (Course for Freshmen.) "Jane Austen" (continued). Professor A. S. Hill. Sever...
Seventy-five out of every hundred freshmen who enter Yale graduate; while Harvard graduates seventy-four out of every hundred.- Yale News...