Word: subbing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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...
...Natural History Society has offered three subjects for prize essays. The first is on the "Dis-semination of Seeds"; second, "Make a Collection of the Plants of one Family and note the Peculiarities of Station of each Plant"; third, "Character of Insects : Sub-orders." The prizes will be awarded, if any essays are deemed worthy of them, in January, 1881. They are : A first prize of $25 to the individual, and some seventy fossils, and ten geological models, to be deposited in his name in the school of which he is a member; a second prize...
...made at the Bursar's office, it would have been found that there was no cause for complaint. Only five rooms in Hollis and Stoughton together were given up, and as this is not more than a twelfth of the whole number, the Bursar was compelled, in justice to sub-freshmen, to reserve these rooms for them. Men in college seem to forget that they were ever sub-freshmen...