Word: juniors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sophomore crew rows daily in the rowing room of the gymnasium at four o'clock, the junior crew at five and the senior crew at half-past five...
There appeared in the New York Evening Post of last Friday a long letter from a Yale alumnus under the heading "Where Reform is Needed at Yale." The writer was much alarmed lest "Yale democracy" should suffer seriously from the yearly increasing extravagance shown in conducting the Junior Promenade. "From the modest affair of ten years ago," he said, "this promenade has grown to an elaborate structure with numerous accessories to manage, enjoy, and recover from, which requires the time and energy of perhaps a third of the students for a week, while the pockets of many of them need...
...proceeds of the Cornell junior promenade, which will occur February 7, will be given to the crews...
...junior promenades have taken place at Yale since 1848, being at that time known as the "Wooden Spoon Entertainments." They were intended as a burlesque on the regular junior exhibition, and were in imitation of a custom in Cambridge, England, of naming the last man on the junior appointment list, the "wooden spoon." The faculty finally put a stop to the wooden spoon entertainments in 1870. The first junior promenade, however, was held under that name in 1851. It was originated to defray the expenses of the band that played at the junior exhibition and was so successful that...
...scholarship to be known as the Scott-Hurrt scholarship has been founded at Yale. It is the income of $5,000, and will be conferred upon two students, one junior and one senior, for intelligent industry and approved scholarship without any specific competitive examination...