Word: sub-freshman
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...have even the satisfaction of imagining that he has a small chance of becoming an inmate of those inviting walls. Sub-freshmen and all under-graduates, this year, will make their applications at the same time. By this change, an old cause of complaint will be removed. The main features of this system, however, remain intact. The old college hat will be brought out of the band box again, and the quarters of the undergraduate, and his sub-freshman friend decided by a lucky or unlucky shake...
...speak of sub-freshman in the sophomore class may doubtless seem to many an awful anomaly, but still even then the phrase must contain an idea, and that idea lies at a greater depth than the mere names themselves. Sub-freshmen don't properly belong in college, but sub-freshmen in the sophomore class! What does it mean? A freshmen proper is expected at the beginning of the year to appear a little verdant, as they say; indeed he is not to be blamed for it. But when the freshman has become a sophomore he is supposed to have...
...Hill, in giving lectures on English Literature to the Sophomores, is certainly to be commended; but aside from this the instruction in Rhetoric is so notoriously inefficient as to be the laughing-stock of the entire College. It has been frequently suggested that Rhetoric ought to be made a sub-freshman study, and it is safe to say that the instruction given in a certain section last year would be easily within the comprehension of a child of three years. One would think that if the Rhetoric instructors did not care to make their courses attractive, they would at least...
...having their petitions posted as "requiring further explanation" that we take up our stylograph with fear and trembling, even though it be only to ask the admission of the undergraduate student to a course already given in College; our reference is to Superlative Economy 1. When we were a Sub-Freshman we derived great pleasure and profit from the perusal of a little volume entitled "Ye Proverbes of Beniamin Franklin," and made up of such choice maxims as these, "Economic is Wealthe," "A Penny Sav'd is a Penny Earn'd," "Take Care of ye Pence and ye Poundes will...
...instructress in Sunday School, and if this be the first time that she hath disported herself in the giddy dance at the house of one that is known unto her; and lo, the scoffs of the maiden are as a broken reed, and the young man presenteth a sub-Freshman, and leaveth with a smile, and loudly he sweareth that no emphasized maiden from the land that is towards the setting sun shall again get the drop on him. And lo, the weather was exceeding cold...