Word: feeder
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...debates of the Harvard Union and of the Wendell Phillips Club next Friday night are intended especially for members of the Freshman Debating Club. As the Freshman Debating Club was organized as a feeder for these two older societies, many freshmen will undoubtedly take advantage of this opportunity of speaking for membership...
...being shown in physical training and a much higher grade of athletics has taken the place of the rather childish sports of ten years ago. All this, as has been said so many times, has its effect on collegiate athletics; and this New England Interscholastic Association is the feeder of Harvard more than of any other college. It is in Harvard's interest for her to keep up the encouragement which she is giving to these school athletics...
...seriously the plan to establish a second glee club. The Glee Club, of course, best knows, how it could carry out such a plan. In our athletics it has been found that a second team works admirably. Why should not a second glee club become equally well a capital feeder and training school to the 'Varsity Glee Club...
Forty-one men met in the trophy room of the gymnasium last night in response to the call for candidates for the foot ball squad. Captain Trafford explained that the squad this year was designed to be a feeder to the university eleven, rather than to the class elevens, as last year. It will be kept at work for five weeks. At the end of a fortnight it will be divided into two parts, an advanced squad being formed out of the men who have shown most interest and ability in their work. The advanced section will meet...
...radical change in the numbers which they are sending respectively to Yale and Harvard. Exeter, which formerly had the name of being the Harvard preperatory school, is now sending many students to Yale, while Andover, which used to fit her men almost exclusively for Yale, has become a good feeder for Harvard. The result is that while the proportion sent from the two schools to Harvard and Yale has evened up a great deal, neither college has gained more than the other in actual numbers from the two schools...