Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...LETTER from New Haven to a New York paper about the Yale crew says that some feeling exists at Yale about "the statement that Harvard is boasting that all that is wanted in the next race by Harvard is to see how much Yale's time can be beaten." Now we wish to assure our Yale friends that the statement referred to is false. Harvard never has made that silly boast, and does not intend to. She knows the uncertainty of the chances of boat-races too well to feel sure of anything except that she will try her best...
...removed by depositing in the Dean's box a suitable petition; and yet this simple remedy is seldem adopted. This is caused, not by lack of excuses, for, since the hard times began, physician's certificates have been unusually cheap, but by the natural aversion all students feel towards U. 5. Only the longest experience will enable a man to calmly draw near that fatal threshold and unmoved send up his petition. Again, some of us, especially now in the semiannuals, cannot afford the time such a daily task requires. Now these difficulties might be removed by having the Secretary...
...Chloe feel one little blow...
Another form of exercise which is strictly forbidden is taking a walk; how the men who patrol North Avenue in couples would feel, if they knew that to walk is not at all "the thing." If they want to do an errand, they ought to hire a carriage; if they want exercise, - which some men, strangely enough, do, - they can take boxing lessons...
...leisurely, gentlemanly way. I confess that my aim was not a high one, and therefore there is perhaps little wonder that my course does not seem entirely satisfactory. I have had a rather good time; but I am anxious now to go to some place where I shall feel that I am at least accomplishing something tangible, and where there will be something to call forth my ambition. If I speak as an individual, I think I can at least say that, if not a majority, at least quite a respectable portion, of my class agree with me in thinking...