Word: freshmen
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...debate between the Sophomores and the Freshmen, held the same evening, was on the question, "Resolved, That the natural productive industries of the United States will be benefited by legislation securing immediate reciprocity with Canada, on natural and manufactured products." A.W. Blackwood, J.W. Russell, and G.C. Townsend represented the Sophomores and E.R. Brumley W.H. Keeling and W.M. Whitman, the Freshmen. This debate was extremely close, the judges remaining in consultation for three-quarters of an hour, and was finally awarded to the Sophomores on account of their superior work in rebuttal...
Several changes have been made in the debating system this year. The first and most important was the abolishing of the Senior and Junior clubs and the formation of an active University debating body, to which all members of the University except Freshmen and Sophomores should be eligible. The suggestion that the coach of a University team sit as one of the five judges at the trials was adopted, and the coach was further given power, with the consent of a majority of the original board of judges, to replace members of a first team by members of the second...
...down stream to the Navy Yard this afternoon under very good conditions. The first crew gained steadily and finishing three and a half lengths ahead. The time was 10 minutes, 3 seconds. The race between the Freshman and second crews was very close. In the first half mile the Freshmen secured a good lead but the second gradually cut it down and finished only a few feet behind. Shortly afterwards the Yale university and freshman eights went over the same course under slightly better conditions. Their time was a few seconds faster but could not be accurately obtained...
...Freshmen will start at 10.30 at the bridge and row up stream, finishing at the Navy Yard. Immediately after the Freshman race is over, the four-oared crews will start at the Navy Yard, and row up stream, finishing opposite Red Top. The University eights will start at 12.30 opposite Red Top, and row down stream, finishing at the bridge...
...take a four-mile row today. About 6 o'clock the university and freshman crews paddled up stream for three miles. Then they headed down stream for a two-mile race, the university crew rowing a 24 stroke and the freshman a 28. After covering two miles, the freshmen dropped out. The rough water prevented smooth work. The morning work was light, the crews taking only a short now down stream, making a few racing starts with fair success. In the freshman crew today. Danielson took the place of Scott at 8, and Husted conswained in place of Cruttschmitt...