Word: subs
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Before he had reached Athens, the sub-Freshman was met by students who urged or compelled him to join the classes of that professor whose partisans they were, - a proceeding which reminds one of the way which the Yale students take to recruit their Freshman societies. The factions often came to blows over the merits of rival instructors, but the most serious rows were between town and gown, - for the students of "the fair metropolis of the world of mind" then strove with as much eagerness as the students of the metropolis of America now strive to make their occupation...
...whole number of applicants for rooms on the sub-Freshmen's list...
...studied less than Sub or Sophomore...
...report that a committee had been appointed to investigate the Senior-Class elections turns out to be founded on the existence of a Sub-Committee on Class Day, composed of members of the Visiting Committee on Discipline. The members of the Committee, it is reported, would be glad to assist in any way possible towards a successful Class...
...have served for half a dozen years on the academical examining committee appointed by the Harvard Overseers, and have been assigned, during several of these years, to the sub-committee on Greek. I confidently assert that Harvard College produces better Greek scholars than it produced thirty years ago. That the general interest in Greek is less cannot be doubted; but the repeated evidence of the aforesaid examining committee shows that this is not true of Greek alone, but of all purely literary studies, English not excepted. This is due partly to the great scientific advances made during the last...