Word: freshmen
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...scenes which made Freshmen turn giddy...
...lingered" for an unusually long time in the "lap of Spring," and Jupiter Pluvius still makes out-door plans uncertain, we are forcibly reminded that Spring has really come. The shop windows are placarded with "Spring Openings," several vernal poems have been offered for publication, and groups of Freshmen can be seen playing marbles and pitch-penny. But to us surer and more important signs are the small crowd with cricket and base-ball bats, that move toward Jarvis daily after dinner, and the smaller crowd that direct their steps toward the boat-houses just before supper...
...Freshmen, we believe, belongs the credit of showing the first signs of returning life. Early in the season they originated the plan of having a tournament of the Freshmen Nines of all New England colleges. At the Convention held at the Massasoit House, Springfield, April 5, this plan was fully developed and established. The six colleges, represented by their delegates, decided that there should be such a tournament, and that it should take place at Springfield, July 14; each Nine playing with every other Nine. The tournament, coming to a close on the day of the Regatta, will furnish another...
Perhaps, however, the story is chiefly valuable for affording us glimpses into Yale student life on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons. From casual remarks, we gather that whist is a game which is not enjoyed there. Pillow fights are preferred. But even these grow monotonous to the high-spirited Freshmen, and on the afternoon from which the tale dates, we learn that, having stationed watchmen throughout the entries of their building, some Freshmen were indulging in a quadrille. Such an innocent sport is not allowed, however, by the Yale Faculty. It tends directly to worse vices. A step is heard...
...insufficient to fill the vast recesses of the hall, and the little band of musical devotees in one corner was a truly touching sight. To cap the whole and leave no room for indecision, the President and Faculty concluded that cigar-stumps were too tempting a sight to Freshmen to insure proper attention to their examinations, and forbade smoking, that inseparable concomitant of all deep reflection or literary work. The atmosphere being no longer congenial, it was decided to move, and a committee appointed for the purpose was finally, after much tribulation, enabled to report a favorable location...