Word: feeder
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class of 1860. The lands, house and equipments will cost upwards of $20,000. It is intended that any member of the university on payment of a small fee, shall be able to take up rowing as a recreation. It is not primarily intended to be a feeder for the crews though good rowing material will undoubtedly be discovered through it. It is intended to extend the use of rowing as a pastime. Anyone who has seen at the English Universities thirty or forty boats of all descriptions, by thus used of an afternoon, by teachers and students...
...that the faculty has no intention of allowing the nine to practice with professionals this year, it is high time to organize that second nine which was decided upon. It will be remembered that Captain Henshaw announced that one would be formed, furnished with uniforms which would act as feeder to the 'varsity and be a nine with which good practice games could be played. But, as far as I can make out, all this plan has been given up without more apparent cause than listlessness on the part of the organizers. There are plenty of good players...
...Yale Club in this school. We were much astonished that any such action should be taken by the students and that it should receive the sanction of any portion of the faculty, especially when it is known that a few administrations since the converting of the school into a feeder for one college and the giving to it a sectarian character, alienated the support of the Phillips family, which support has never since been recovered, and the loss of which has cost the institution a great deal of money. No matter with what ostensible object such a club should...
...this so? The only satisfactory solution of the problem lies in the fact that here all branches of athletics seem to be at their lowest ebb, while at the two colleges previously cited the case is reversed. Exeter Academy, Harvard's oldest and hitherto most reliable feeder, has sent nearly twice as many men to the other colleges as here, and the number of men who have gone to Yale from Andover is unprecedented. The only way to overcome this change of feeling is for Harvard to enter the athletic field with greater determination, vim and energy...
During the year the ladies interested in the Harvard examinations in New York city have established a school to prepare women for them, and it will prove a feeder to the annex classes as well, since the examinations are the same. The school is under the care of a former fellow of Johns Hopkins University and will afford an opportunity that has been wanting heretofore. Women have suffered from the lack of such schools...